Book reviewed in this article:

Burt, Martha, 1992: Over the edge: the growth of homelessness in the 1980s.

Drache, Daniel and Meric Gertler (eds), 1991: The new era of global competition: state policy and market power.

Kemeny, Jim, 1992: Housing and social theory.

Savage, Mike, James Barlow, Peter Dickens and Tony Fielding, 1992: Property, bureaucracy and culture: middle‐class formation in contemporary Britain.

Spain, Daphne, 1992: Gendered spaces.

Storper, Michael, 1991: Industrialization, economic development and the regional question in the third world: from import substitution to flexible production.

Wolch, Jennifer, 1991: The shadow state: government and voluntary sector in transition.