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`Using up-to-date data, modern cartographic methods, and an approach that addresses students' everyday lives, Danny Dorling has produced an engaging introduction to the contemporary geography of the UK. It will be the focus of many lively discussions of patterns and trends’ - Ron Johnston, School of Geography, University of Bristol Using statistics from many sources in an engaging and accessible way, Human Geography of the UK is written from the perspective of a beginning undergraduate, it's objective is to define the key elements of population geography and show how they fit together. Highly visual – with maps and figures on every page – the text uses different data to describe the social landscape of the United Kingdom. Organized in ten short thematic chapters, explaining the nuts and bolts of population, including: birth, inequality; education; mobility; work; and mortality. The book concludes with a comparative analysis of UK in global context. Human Geography of the UK features practical exercises, and clear summaries in tables and specially drawn maps.
Work: …The Segmentation of Society
Work: …The Segmentation of Society
Whether people work, the work that they do, how well they are rewarded for it and almost every other aspect of employment are, to a large extent, geographically determined in the UK. Furthermore, how those conditions of employment are changing, what work is available, in which industries and the changing extent to which the population is able to carry out this work are also strongly geographically patterned. To understand both how these patterns are changing and what they are changing into requires simultaneously observing processes of both change and concentration. The maps in this chapter are attempts to show both of these distributions together for ten selected aspects of the labour market. By showing this detail ...
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