Second-order cities are generally seen as disadvantaged places in the literature on globalisation, but in recent years they have staged a revival in several countries. This article uses two data sources to examine the employment change recorded by Britain’s Core Cities between 2012 and 2017, breaking it down by type of worker, occupation and industry. It aims, firstly, to identify which elements of their growth are distinctive compared to the country as a whole and, secondly, to see how far their growth has been emulated by the areas around them that contain the majority of Britain’s ‘left-behind’ places. The article demonstrates the great strides made by the nine provincial cities combined, substantially exceeding the national rate of increase for male, female, full-time, part-time, employee and self-employed work, notably in the three highest status occupational groups and in all industrial sectors apart from manufacturing and transport, especially business services. It is also found that their growth outstripped that of their local, regional and EU comparators, underlining the importance of direct policy intervention for ‘left-behind’ places rather than relying on ‘trickle-down’ processes, especially given uncertainties about the sustainability of Core City growth in the wake of COVID-19 and Brexit.

在有关全球化的文献中，二线城市通常被认为是处境不利的地方，但是近年来，它们已经在几个国家中复兴。本文使用两个数据源来检查英国核心城市在2012年至2017年之间记录的就业变化，并按工人，职业和行业的类型对其进行细分。它的目的是首先确定其增长的哪些要素与整个国家相比是独特的，其次，查看包含英国大部分“左后卫”的地区所模拟的增长程度。的地方。文章显示了这9个省市的长足进步，大大超过了全国男性，女性，全职，兼职，雇员和自雇工作的增长率，尤其是在地位最高的三个职业群体中，以及在制造业和运输业，尤其是商业服务业之外的所有工业领域。我们还发现，他们的增长超过了本地，区域和欧盟的同类国家，突显了对“落后”地区采取直接政策干预的重要性，而不是依靠“ tri脚”进程，尤其是考虑到可持续性的不确定性。在COVID-19和英国脱欧之后，核心城市的增长。