Government Factories and the Origins of British Regional Policy, 1934-1948; including a case study of North Eastern Trading Estates Ltd

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See the writer's doctoral thesis 'Government Financed Factories in the North East of England in the Context of the Evolution of Regional Policy, 1934-48', Newcastle University, 1985. The writer was sometime the founder and manager of manufacturing businesses at the Team Valley Industrial Estate. Deals with the origins of regional industrial policy aimed at alleviating unemployment, and its subsequent development, analysed especially through the experience of the activities of NETE Ltd. Structured in five parts: Part 1] 'Depression in the North East': 'Origins of the crisis' / 'The industrial situation' / 'Social effects of the crisis' / 'Some measures of social relief' / 'Regional and local development boards'; Part 2] 'Origins of regional policy': 'The 1934 Special Areas Act' / 'Government financed trading estates - origins' / 'The crucial months' / 'The foundation of the Company' / 'The choice of site'; Part 3]: 'Prewar developments': 'Beginnings' / 'National and local reaction' / 'The 1937 Amendment Act' / 'Finance for Industry' / 'The outside sites' / 'Early years of the Company'; Part 4] 'The war - beginnings of development area policy': 'The company in the war years' / 'Evolution of postwar policy' / 'The wartime factories'; Part 5] 'The post war years to the end of 1948': 'Factory construction after the war' / '1946 Advanced Factory Programme' / 'The economic crisis of 1947' / 'Policy and the changing role of the company, 1944-48'