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 achievements
• Includes extensive new research data on the current conditions of local labour markets in the UK and local impacts of the New Deal
• Illustrated by a large series of original maps and figures.
• Based on numerous interviews with local and regional policy actors.

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 achievements
• Includes extensive new research data on the current conditions of local labour markets in the UK and local impacts of the New Deal
• Illustrated by a large series of original maps and figures.
• Based on numerous interviews with local and regional policy actors.

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 achievements
• Includes extensive new research data on the current conditions of local labour markets in the UK and local impacts of the New Deal
• Illustrated by a large series of original maps and figures.
• Based on numerous interviews with local and regional policy actors.