This book is the first comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the New Deal and examines how far the programme has succeeded in responding to the diversity of conditions in local labour markets across the UK.

• Argues that profound differences in local labour market conditions have exerted a telling influence on the New Deal's achievements
  
• Includes extensive new research data on the current conditions of local labour markets in the UK and local impacts of the New Deal
  
• Illustrated by a large series of original maps and figures.
  
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A broad and comprehensive Handbook, edited by leading figures in the field of economic geography.

Since the beginning of the 1980s, British trade unions have experienced a dramatic retreat, marked by rapidly falling membership and declining industrial power. The authors examine the regional dimensions of this retreat of organised labour, paying particular attention to:
The resilience of the unions' historical heartland areas. The impact of economic restructuring on local union traditions. The shrinking landscape of industrial militancy. The geographical decentralization of the new industrial relations. The link between these factors and the more general debate on regional development...