" EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Rich in case study
insights, this book provides an overview of city-region building and considers how …

Since the mid-1980s, out-of-work benefit receipt in the UK has been increasingly governed
by a 'workfarist'mesh of conditionality and activation policies. A wealth of research has found …

This article shows that the unemployed are broadly supportive of welfare reforms which
have led to increased poverty; exacerbated ill health; led some to engage in 'survival …

This article advances a zemiological framework of work-based harms, as a means of
interrogating the contemporary crisis in the quality of work. Such a framework provides a …

This article focuses on how the imaginary of a 'safe'environment was visualised and
conveyed within the hospitality sector during the COVID-19 pandemic, drawing on diaries …

Through qualitative interviews and overt non‐participant observation with 15 former
steelworkers and their sons, changes in perceptions of masculinity are explored across a …

The last few years have seen an increasing stream of headlines identifying a toxic culture of
sexual harassment at McDonald's outlets in the UK. This recently culminated in the rm's UK …

This paper analyses the role of trades councils and trade unions in organising within local
and regional contexts around the challenges facing and potential union strategies for …

Climate change alters the political economy that trade unions face. As a wicked, global,
social problem, it strains the meaning of Just Transition: unions' demand to ameliorate …

This chapter contributes to debates on welfare reform and precarious work in city-regions. It
focuses on how work-first policies contribute to work and non-work insecurity. We examine …