ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how state policies have mediated various forms of change in and between labour and housing markets in North-east England. The availability of female labour in the North-east coincided with pressures on the female labour market in regions such as Lancashire and Yorkshire. In the North-east pursuit of the objective became intertwined with that of achieving desired male labour market stability and selective female labour market change via the formation and implementation of local authority settlement policies. The most striking feature of labour market change in the North-east in this period is the tremendous expansion in unemployment, reminiscent of the 1920s and 1930s. Local authority housing and planning policies were formulated so as to try simultaneously to support both of these forms of labour market stasis and change via locationally concentrated provision of new public sector housing.
