The Political Economy of Uneven and Combined Development: The Case of North East England

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Ray Hudson

The Political Economy of Uneven and Combined Development

The Case of North East England

Ray Hudson

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Routledge
04 July 2025

Development studies; Political economy; Urban economics; Human geography; Regional geography

Series: Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy

The focus of this book is the processes through which industries and regions grow and decline in capitalist economies via an investigation of the trajectory of change in the North East of England.

How and why did its economy grow from the sixteenth century to be a ""Workshop of the World"" by the outbreak of the First World War, only to collapse a decade later? How and why did the region then become a laboratory for experiments in state policies to reverse economic decline, policies that have largely failed? How did the region become transformed from one with indigenous innovative firms, to one of foreign branch plants focused on routine component production and assembly, to a deindustrialised region which became the destination for call centres and Amazon distribution centres? What were the economic, labour market, and social consequences of these changes? The account of regional change is framed in terms of uneven and combined development, temporally, spatially, and between and within the broad classes of Capital and Labour. The core message of this book is that the growth and decline of the region, and of the changing map of regional development, are most appropriately understood within a conceptual framework of uneven and combined development grounded in Marxian political economy.

This book will be of interest to academic researchers and students of political economy, regional development, geography, sociology, planning and policy studies, as well as policymakers in central, regional, and local government.

By: Ray Hudson
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032536156
ISBN 10: 1032536152
Series: Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
Pages: 252
Publication Date: 04 July 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Introduction 1. The Emergence of a Workshop of the World: Constructing the Carboniferous Economy of Coal, Steel and Ships 2. Economic Crisis and the Emergence of New Forms of Governance in the Inter-war Years 3. The War Economy and Post-war Recovery 4. Modernising the Region, version 1 5. Modernising the Region, version 2 6. The Political Economy of Neoliberal Austerity and Its Effects on the North East

Ray Hudson is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Geography, Durham University, UK.