Geographies of Labour Market Inequality

In recent years, the local dimensions of the labour market have attracted increasing attention from academic analysts and public policy-makers alike. There is growing realization that there is no such thing as the national labour market, instead a mosaic of local and regional markets that differ in nature, performance and regulation. Geographies of Labour Market Inequality is concerned with these multiple geographies of employment, unemployment, work and incomes, and their implications for public policy.The Introduction sets out the case for thinking about the labour market in geographical terms, and discusses some of the challenges confronting labour markets in the contemporary period. In Part Two, the focus is on the processes that produce and reproduce inequalitites in employment, unemployment and wages within and between local labour markets: how the varying demand for labour modifies the way the unemployed search for work in different regions; how local concentrations of unemployment arise and interact with the operation of local housing markets to exacerbate social polarisation; how employers reconstruct traditional low wage labour pools to meet new employment needs; how the