Book reviews: Fothergill,S. and Guy,J. 1991: Retreat from the regions: corporate change and the closure of factories. Regional Policy and Development Se ries 1. London: Jessica Kingsley and Regional Studies Association. 192 pp. £25.00 cloth,£12.95 paper. ISBN: 1 853 021016

Gaffikin, F. and Nickson, A. 1984: Job crisis and the multinationals: deindustrialisation in the West Midlands Birmingham: Trade Union Resource Centre.

Hood, N. and Young, S. 1982: Multinationals in retreat: the Scottish experience Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Townsend, A. and Peck, F.W. 1985: An approach to the analysis of redundancies in the UK (post-1976): some methodological problems and policy implications. In Massey, D. and Meegan, R. , editors, Politics and method: contrasting studies in industrial geography, London: Methuen, 64-87.

Watts, H.D. and Stafford, H.A. 1986: Plant closure and the multiplant firm: some conceptual issues. Progress in Human Geography 10, 206-27.