Consumer Services and Economic Development
ISBN: 9780429231858
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge
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Subjects: Economics Finance Business & Industry; Geography; Economics Finance and Accounting; Human Geography; Economic Geography;

Consumer Services have been viewed as parasitic activities, dependent on other sectors of the economy for their viability and vitality. Yet local economic policy is now looking towards consumer services to solve severe economic problems. The rapid expansion of the service sector is now a principal feature of contemporary global economic restructuri

Colin Williams is a senior lecturer in economic geography at Leicester University.

Williams has written Consumer Services and Economic Development and Examining the Nature of Domestic Labor, and has contributed to the journals International Planning Studies, Local Government Policy Making and the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.

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