Engineering : company strategies and public policy in an industry in crisis

This text examines attempts at economic regeneration in areas that have experienced the decline in "traditional" industry. The contributors also look at the impact of technological and managerial modernization strategies in industries that have survived. Coverage includes: coal; steel closure and economic regeneration; defence conversion; modernizing textiles; modernizing motor vehicles; trading ports in Merseyside; from manufacturing to service industries in the Midlands; the engineering industry - prospects in the South East; and de-industrialization and regeneration in the North East