Introduction: The political economy of UK industrial policy
Craig Berry, Julie Froud and Tom Barker

Part I The historical context
1. Prisoner of the past: British industrial policy from empire to Brexit
James Silverwood and Richard Woodward
2. Industrial policy, then and now: historicizing the 2017 White Paper
Victoria Chick
3. The developmental state in England: the role of the Treasury in industrial policy
Simon Lee

Part II Rethinking economic foundations
4. The foundational economy and industrial strategy
Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal and Karel Williams
5. The false promise of productivity
Paul Lewis
6. A "return to normal times"? Industrial strategy and reproductive labour
Isaac Stanley

Part III The end of laissez-faire?
7. Business-centric governance in UK industrial policy: neoliberal wine in interventionist bottles?
Craig Berry and Tom Barker
8. Reconciling a post-Brexit trade and industrial strategy
Matthew Louis Bishop
9. Financing industrial strategy: the role of state investment banks
Laurie Macfarlane

Part IV Manufacturing and innovation
10. Risk management and reduction in global supply chains and production networks: reshoring and rightshoring versus offshoring
John R. Bryson, Vida Vanchan and Shihao T. Zhou
11. Making work: The knowledge economy, automation, and industrial strategy
Nick O’Donovan
12. Industrial strategy and science and innovation policy
Richard Jones

Part V Firms and workers
13. Broadening the ambit of industrial strategy to include latent demand and corporate governance
Ciaran Driver
14. Expanding skills and workplace capacity: a relational approach to industrial strategy
Alison Fuller and Lorna Unwin
15. Why an industrial strategy needs trade unions
Kate Bell

Part VI Mainstreaming inequality and low pay
16. Where should low-wage sectors feature in an industrial strategy?
John Forth and Ana Rincon-Aznar
17. Care as investment in social infrastructure
Susan Himmelweit
18. Reducing inequality as industrial policy: finding productivity gains in the "overlooked economy"
Ed Pemberton
Part VII The local dimension
19. The policy challenges of "levelling up"
Ron Martin, Peter Sunley and Ben Gardiner
20. Local industrial policy and "left-behind" places
John Tomaney and Andy Pike
21. Looking North: the multi-level governance of economic policy
Arianna Giovannini and Luke Raikes

Part VIII Towards a greener future?
22. Sustainability dilemmas and Britain’s national industrial ambitions: Brexit, electric cars, and a petrol and diesel ban
Dan Coffey and Carole Thornley
23. Industrial policy in the context of climate emergency: the urgent need for a Green New Deal
Daniel Bailey
24. Clean and lean: an industrial strategy for an era of globalisation and climate change
Dustin Benton
Conclusion: building a progressive industrial strategy amid and after Covid-19
Craig Berry