• Coventry provides a concrete example of a city that has been subject to numerous challenges and subsequent changes

• Contributes to our understanding of how urban centres are increasingly embedded in the architecture of the global market and whether this serves to insulate them from peaks and troughs in economic activity

• Asks whether globalising economic forces have served to make Coventry's local economy a more robust, dynamic and innovative economy, enjoying higher standards of living and offered improved work opportunities in better paying jobs

• Presents a collaborative and detailed investigation into the social and economic history of a major UK conurbation, from the post-war period up until the present

• Explores the dynamics of socioeconomic change and globalisation through the prism of Coventry

Autorentext

Jason Begley is Assistant Professor at Coventry University, UK.

Tom Donnelly is Emeritus Professor at Coventry University, UK.

David Jarvis is Reader at Coventry University, UK.

Paul Sissons is Reader at Coventry University, UK.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Introduction; Jason Begley, Tom Donnelly, David Jarvis and Paul Sissons.- Chapter 2: Coventry: A Growing City; Tom Donnelly.- Chapter 3: Coventry at War: Industrial Relations, Ownership and Production; Malte Busch.- Chapter 4: Coventry in the Long Boom 1950-1970; Michael Haynes.- Chapter 5: Recession and Relative Recovery; Clive Collis.- Chapter 6: Affective Regeneration in Coventry; Jonathan Kershaw.- Chapter 7: Population, Migration and Commuting Patterns in a Changing City; Paul Sissons.- Chapter 8: Occupational Structure and Change in Post-war Coventry; Jason Begley.- Chapter 9: The Rebirth of the Phoenix City: Sectoral Shifts and the Evolution of Coventry's Economic Base; Myles Mackie.- Chapter 10: Toward a New Knowledge Economy?; David Morris.- Chapter 11: Concluding remarks; Jason Begley, Tom Donnelly, David Jarvis and Paul Sissons.