The Modernisation of Britain and Local Economic Policy

Promise and Contradictions

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4476150
AutoresJamie Gough (0000-0003-2591-5744, The University of Sydney), Aram Eiscnschitz (Middlesex University)
Año1996
Volumen14
Número2
Páginas203-219
Fecha de publicación1996-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/d140203
OpenAlexW2043612279
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas28

Britain's poor economic performance is often thought to be the product of exceptional, archaic characteristics of British society which weaken domestic industry; 'modernisation' is seen as the creation of a 'normal' capitalism. The modernisation project in recent years has shifted from the national to the local level, partly as a reaction to national neoliberalism which prioritises capital mobility over socialisation to promote manufacturing, Local modernisation strategies can avoid the dangers of overpoliticisation which beset national modernisation, but they are undermined not only by deeply rooted traditions but also by themselves promoting capital mobility and regressive effects. Local strategies for socialisation and movements for British modernisation are both disrupted by the opposition between, but mutual dependence of, capital mobility and the territorial socialisation of production. The difficulty of modernising Britain is thus due to the typicality rather than to the cxceptionalism of British capital

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