Levelling up the UK economy : the need for transformative change? / Luke Telford, Jonathan Wistow.
Telford, Luke.; Wistow, Jonathan.
2022
HC256.7
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Title Levelling up the UK economy : the need for transformative change? / Luke Telford, Jonathan Wistow.
Author Telford, Luke.
ISBN 9783031175077 (electronic bk.)
3031175077 (electronic bk.)
3031175069
9783031175060
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17507-7
Imprint Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-17507-7 doi
Call Number HC256.7
Dewey Decimal Classification 338.942854
Summary This book contributes to emerging debates about Levelling Up the UK Economy, considering these alongside the nature of, and trends in, both the political economy and spatial disparities. Drawing on a complex systems framing, the book pulls together a range of evidence to provide insights about the agenda from macro, meso and micro levels of analyses, including utilising qualitative data from a small scoping study with Directors of Regeneration across several left behind places and 25 residents of left behind Redcar & Cleveland in Teesside. The book outlines phases in capitalisms development, particularly the shift from post-war capitalism to a post-industrial and neoliberal society and the implications for spatial inequalities. The 2022 Levelling Up White Paper is analysed alongside a focus on the role of local government relative to the agenda. The book offers an empirical case study of left behind Redcar & Cleveland, exposing deindustrialisation, insecure employment, crime, anti-social behaviour and sentiments on a North South divide and Levelling Up. We suggest that only a transformative change in the political economy, including significant and sustained investment at different spatial levels, is likely to achieve the ambition to Level Up. Luke Telford is a Lecturer in Criminal Justice & Social Policy at the University of York, UK. He is a multidisciplinary academic who has published on political economy, politics, working-class culture, labour markets and the COVID-19 pandemic. Luke is the author/co-author of three other books including English Nationalism and its Ghost Towns, as well as Lockdown: Social harm in the COVID-19 era. Jonathan Wistow is an Associate Professor at Durham University, UK. Jonathan has a background in local government having previously worked in a local authority. He has published work on local government and governance systems, health inequalities, climate change adaptation, complexity theory, social policy and political economy. He is the author/co-author of two other books including Social Policy, Political Economy and the Social Contract.
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Intro
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Contents
About the Authors
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction
The Levelling Up Agenda
Methodological Note
Level
Actors
System Logic
Book Structure
References
Chapter 2: Capitalism's Trajectories and Local Spatial Dynamics
Introduction
Laissez Faire
A Capitalist Aberration
The Neoliberal Phase Shift
Austerity
'Left behind' Places
Conclusion
References
Chapter 3: The Levelling Up Agenda
Introduction
Levelling up: Prior to the White Paper
The Levelling up White Paper

Systems Reform
Capitals
Missions and the Policy Programme
Conclusion
References
Chapter 4: Local Government, Governance and Levelling Up
Introduction
Local Government and Governance Systems: Trajectories of Decline and Fragmentation
Local Democracy and Devolution
Local Government and Levelling Up
Conclusion
References
Chapter 5: Sentiments from a 'Left Behind' Place
Introduction
Industrialised Security to Instability
"Everything is Run Down"
Crime and Anti-social Behaviour
"We are a Forgotten People"
Levelling Up?
Conclusion
References

Chapter 6: Conclusion: Scanning the Future
Moving into a Post-Neoliberal World?
References

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