Impacts of Automotive Plant Closure

Andrew Beer is Professor in the School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.Holli Evans is a Lecturer in the School of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Queensland, Australia.

• 1. Introduction: A tale of two cities - auto plant closures and policy responses in Birmingham and Adelaide Andrew Beer and Holli Thomas 2. Supply chains and locational adjustment in the global automotive industry Ho-Yeon Kim and Philip McCann 3. Rover and out? Globalisation, the West Midlands auto cluster, and the end of MG Rover David Bailey, Seiji Kobayashi and Stewart MacNeill 4. Birmingham: whose urban renaissance? Regeneration as a response to economic restructuring Austin Barber and Stephen Hall 5. The housing and neighbourhood impacts of knowledge-based economic development following industrial closure Alex Burfitt and Ed Ferrari 6. The impact of factory closure on local communities and economies: the case of the MG Rover Longbridge closure in Birmingham Caroline Chapain and Alan Murie 7. Risk and return: housing tenure and labour market adjustment after employment loss in the automotive sector in southern Adelaide Andrew Beer 8. Closure of an automotive plant: transformation of a work-based ‘community’ Fiona Verity and Gwyn Jolley 9. Auto plant closures, policy responses and labour market outcomes: a comparison of MG Rover in the UK and Mitsubishi in Australia Kathy Armstrong, David Bailey, Alex de Ruyter, Michelle Mahdon and Holli Thomas 10. A tale of two regions: comparative versus competitive approaches to economic restructuring Holli Thomas, Andrew Beer and David Bailey