The Global Region: Production, State Policies and Uneven Development

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'David Sadler's book is the first in a new Pergamon Press series entitled Policy, Planning and Critical Theory. If Sadler's work is indicative of what is to come, then this series will provide a very welcome addition to the current literature...The
Global Region would serve as an excellent introduction to those unfamiliar with this broader literature. A M Wood, Dept Geography, Ohio State, University Environment & Planning C: Government & Policy Vol 11 No 1, 1993


An increasing number of important daily decisions impacting on particular regions and localities worldwide are being taken in remote centres of international corporate power. This integration of localities into broader international circuits poses harsh
challenges to both capital and labour. The Global Region examines the preconditions, development and implications of such challenges at the national/international and regional/national/international scales. Integration of the UK economy, represented by
coal mining, iron and steel production and automobile assembly, into the global capital environment is examined through the strategies of major actors and the reasons for and impacts of particular state policies. The focus then narrows to investigate the
active and passive repositioning of the north east of England within the shifting international scene. As well as documenting a crucial period in the economic history of the north east and a sorry tale of intervention in the national and regional
economy, the research emphasizes the interconnectedness of the global economy and its impact on the detailed course of different strategies in time and space. It also highlights the extremely narrow room for manoeuvre for all those living and working in
the region.
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Table of Contents

List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction The Interplay of Global, National and Regional Economic Change
I.1 Changing times, changing concepts 1
I.2 Global capital and the international division of labour 4
I.3 Changing forms of production organization, new spatial outcomes? 9
I.4 The national state dimension 17
I.5 Theorizing regional change 24
I.6 Coal, steel, motor vehicles, north east England: the organization of the book 26
Pt. I Global Restructuring: The Picture in Three Diffferent Industries and Its Mediation by UK State Policies
1 Coal on the Energy Market
1.1 Introduction 35
1.2 Coal and the international market 36
1.3 The UK coal industry 45
1.4 Energy supply and the UK electricity generating plant industry 68
1.5 Concluding comments 71
2 Iron and Steel: Global Change and the Rise of New Producers
2.1 Introduction 78
2.2 World steel 79
2.3 Privatization in the UK steel industry: preconditions and implications 96
2.4 Steel in the production chain: raw material supply 106
2.5 Concluding comments 111
3 Automobile ProductIon
3.1 Introduction 116
3.2 Global challenge: the rise and rise of Japan 117
3.3 The Western European market 130
3.4 A new role for the UK? 134
3.5 The automotive components industry 162
3.6 Concluding comments 167
Pt. II Restructuring in an Old Industrial Region: North East England
4 The decline of the Old and the Rise of the New: Coal, Steel and Motor Vehicles In North East England
4.1 Introduction: the changing geography of production in north east England 179
4.2 Pillars of the old industrial base: coal and steel 187
4.3 The new arrival: Nissan in the north east of England 196
4.4 Concluding comments 207
5 Laying the Foundations For a "New" Economy North East England: The Forced Acceptance of Flexible Employment
5.1 Introduction 211
5.2 Stages in the downfall of organized labour in the north east 212
5.3 New conditions of employment in coal and steel 223
5.4 Defining the terms and conditions of re-industrialization: British Steel (Industry) and British Coal Enterprise 231
5.5 Concluding Comments 238
6 The Constancy of Change
6.1 Introduction 243
6.2 A backward glance: review and summary 243
6.3 Where next? The global economy in the 1990s and its implications for the UK and north east England 246
6.4 Global, national, regional: intersecting paths of analysis 252
Bibliography 259
Author Index 269
Subject Index 273
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