Local Partnership & the Unemployment Crisis in Britain

Jeremy Richardson is an Emeritus Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. He was previously Nuffield Professor of Comparative European Politics at Oxford. Prior to moving to Oxford had been Professor of Politics at Strathclyde, Warwick, and Essex Universities. His main interests are in the role of interest groups in the policy process, the policy change process, and the processes of European integration. He was the Founding Editor of the Journal of European Public Policy and is currently Co-Editor of the Journal. His recent publications include Policy-making Under Pressure. Rethinking the policy process in Aotearoa New Zealand (2021: Co-Edited with Sonia Mazey), and British Policy-making After Brexit (2023: Special Issue of the Journal of European Public Policy co-edited with Patrick Diamond). In 2011 he was the recipient of the European Union Studies Association award for Lifetime Achievement in European Studies. Chris Moore was a Lecturer in the Department of Organization, Management and Employment Relations at the University of Strathclyde. Jeremy Moon was a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Government, University of Strathclyde.

Original Review of Local Partnership and the Unemployment Crisis in Britain: ‘This book is useful and well written…[it] will help those with a critical frame of mind to question what they are about and whose interests they really serve.’ Fred Robinson, Work, Employment & Society Vol 4, No. 3 (1990).

• 1.Industrial Relations, The Company and Welfare 2. The Railway, Monopoly and Labour Management 3. Labour in the Metropolitan Gas Industry 4. The Development of Company-Based Labour Policies in the Iron and Steel Industry 5. Systematic Management and Welfare in the Chemicals Industry 6. The Labour Question in the Breweries 7. The Place of industrial Welfare in British Industry 8. The Labour Co-partnership Association and the Industrial Welfare Society 9. Industry and Social Reform. Epilogue.