Corinne Nativel

This book is the first comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the New Deal and examines how far the programme has succeeded in responding to the diversity of conditions in local labour markets across the UK. Argues that profound differences in local labour market conditions have exerted a telling influence on the New Deal’s achievementsIncludes extensive new research data on the current conditions of local labour markets in the UK and local impacts of the New DealIllustrated by a large series of original maps and figures. Based on numerous interviews with local and regional policy actors.

The German 'Active Labour Market Policy' has been over its twelve-year history the most elaborate 'welfare to work' programme in the world. It provided job placement, counselling, early retirement, short-time working, job creation and wage-cost subsidies to the economic casualties of the collapse of the old East German industrial sector. This is the first comprehensive analysis of the policy. It is a major contribution to the literature on economic change and labour market restructuring, as well as a globally relevant critique of employment policy reforms in 'social market' and other advanced capitalist economies.