. State Sponsored Control-Managers, Poverty Professionals and the Inner City Working Class

Introduction 'The long-term aim of the partnership for the inner area is to secure an improved economy and to make it a place where people want to live and work. In the interim, the partnership will act to al­ leviate the worst aspects of the disadvantages currently experienced by inner area residents'. (Newcastle/Gateshead - Inner City Partnership Action Programme 1984-1987, p.2).