1st Edition
The Political Economy of Uneven and Combined Development The Case of North East England
By Ray Hudson
Copyright 2025
266 Pages
26 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
266 Pages
26 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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.
How and why did its economy grow from the sixteenth century to be a "Workshop of the World" by the outbreak of the First World War, only to collapse a decade later? How and why did the region then... Read more
Preface
List of Abbreviations
List of Tables
List of Maps
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Emergence of a Workshop of the World: Constructing the Carboniferous Economy of Coal, Steel and Ships
Chapter 2 Economic Crisis and the Emergence of New Forms of Governance in the Inter-war Years
Chapter 3 The War Economy and Post-war Recovery
Chapter 4 Modernising the Region, version 1
Chapter 5 Modernising the Region, version 2
Chapter 6 The Political Economy of Neoliberal Austerity and Its Effects on the North East
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Ray Hudson is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Geography, Durham University, UK.
