Political Economy of Uneven and Combined Development - The Case of North East England

The focus of this book is the processes through which industries and regions grow and decline in capitalist economies via an investigation of the trajectory of change in the North East of England. The account of regional change is framed in terms of uneven and combined development, temporally and spatially.

List of contents

Introduction 1. The Emergence of a Workshop of the World: Constructing the Carboniferous Economy of Coal, Steel and Ships 2. Economic Crisis and the Emergence of New Forms of Governance in the Inter-war Years 3. The War Economy and Post-war Recovery 4. Modernising the Region, version 1 5. Modernising the Region, version 2 6. The Political Economy of Neoliberal Austerity and Its Effects on the North East

About the author

Ray Hudson is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Geography, Durham University, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Ray Hudson, Hudson Ray
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 15.04.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9781032536156
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3253615-6
• No. of pages: 290
• Series: Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Business & Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Urban & Regional, Urban & municipal planning, Political Economy, Economics of industrial organisation, Human Geography, Development Studies, Regional Geography, Urban and municipal planning and policy, North and North East England, Economics of industrial organization, Regional / urban economics