The Political Geography of Contemporary Britain

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Thatcherism and the New Politics....Pages 1-17
Britain’s Changing Role in the World-Economy....Pages 18-34
Nationalisms in a Disunited Kingdom....Pages 35-50
The Changing Electoral Geography of Great Britain....Pages 51-68
The Crisis of Local Government: Uneven Development and the Thatcher Administrations....Pages 69-86
Deindustrialisation and State Intervention: Keynesianism, Thatcherism and the Regions....Pages 87-112
Rewriting History and Reshaping Geography: the Nationalised Industries and the Political Economy of Thatcherism....Pages 113-129
The Changing Geography of Trade Unions....Pages 130-150
The Politics of ‘Race’ and a New Segregationism....Pages 151-171
Women in Thatcher’s Britain....Pages 172-186
Transport Policy: Off the Rails?....Pages 187-207
The Political Geography of Housing in Contemporary Britain....Pages 208-223
Commercialisation and Centralisation: Towards a New Geography of Health Care....Pages 224-237
Policing the Recession....Pages 238-254
Environmental Politics and Policy in the 1980s....Pages 255-279
Back Matter....Pages 280-303