Restructuring: Place, Class and Gender

Introduction Economic Restructuring and Labour Market Change The Case of Manufacturing The Restructuring of Services The Experience of Restructuring Culture, Civil Society and Urban Form Social Restructuring and Political Mobilization Conclusion

`provides an excellent synthesis of diverse debates and of conceptual and empirical material... the integration of gender relations in the book's analysis is quite exceptional and deserves to have a major influence on future research across the many themes covered' - International Journal of Urban and Regional Research `comprehensive and extensive.... very clearly written.... represents a substantial contribution to the restructuring debate in a commendably interdisciplinary fashion' - Sociology `The literature review is excellent and the reader is not in any position to challenge the statistical picture given in the historical account. There is much of considerable value in tis book' - Environment and Planning