Unemployment and Social Exclusion: Landscapes of Labour inequality and Social Exclusion - Regions and Cities 1st edition

Publisher Marketing: Persistent high employment and growing labour market inequality have become entrenched features of many European countries. This edited collection of papers focuses on the regional and local dimensions of these problems across Europe.

Contributor Bio:  Lawless, Martin Kathleen Lawless is a pseudonym. The author of "A Hard Man to Love" and three other erotic romances from Pocket Books, she finds her inspiration on the beaches of British Columbia. She believes chocolate and red wine are basic food groups and knows firsthand that oysters are a natural aphrodisiac. Contributor Bio:  Hardy, Sally Hardy is Director of Regional Studies Association. Contributor Bio:  Martin, Ron Peter Sunley is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Southampton. He has authored around 50 articles on economic and labour geography and on local and regional economic development. Ron Martin is Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Cambridge, Professorial Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and Fellow of the Cambridge-MIT Institute. He has published more than 20 books including "Geographies of Labour Market Inequality" (2003)and more than 150 articles on regional economic growth, the geography of finance, labour geography, and the geographies of state policy. Corinne Nativel is Research Fellow in the Department of Geography and Geomatics at the University of Glasgow. Her work centres on welfare restructuring, labour market and social policy with a special focus on youth and gender. She has published several books and articles including "Economic Transition, Unemployment and Active Labour Market Policy" (2004).