1st Edition
Revitalising Deprived Urban Neighbourhoods An Assisted Self-Help Approach
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Governments in Western Europe and North America have placed job creation initiatives at the heart of their policy for revitalizing deprived neighbourhoods. However, relying on this alone is problematic and these governments are becoming increasingly interested in finding ways of enabling communities to help themselves. Drawing upon original, in-depth studies of self-help activities in both... Read more
Contents: Introduction. Rationales for a Self-help Approach: The employment problem; The persistence of self-help; Policy options and their implications. Self-help in Deprived Urban Neighbourhoods: Examining self-help activity; The extent and character of self-help; Providing for ourselves: self provisioning; Helping each other out: unpaid community work; Spreading the cash around: paid informal exchange; Barriers to participation in self-help. Developing Policies to Revitalise Deprived Urban Neighbourhoods: From full-employment to full-engagement; Bottom-up initiatives; Top-down approaches; Conclusions; References; Index.
Biography
Colin C. Williams, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK Jan Windebank, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
’At a time when almost every discipline seems to be dominated by the conventional economic paradigms of market and paid work, Colin Williams is a fresh and realistic voice of sanity. This grounded view of life makes a real contribution to research and new policy thinking to improve day to day experience in disadvantaged areas.’ Ed Mayo, New Economics Foundation, UK ''...the book contains a good deal of useful information about local government finance in Europe.' Local Government Studies
