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The essays in this book provide the elements for a new theory of spatial development to explain the new socio-territorial reality produced by global restructuring in the 1970s and 1980s.
The contributors all account for the contemporary territorial units by focusing on global economic dynamics and the history of particular places. The book looks at restructuring in the automobile and electronics industries; the significance of migrant labour and the informal economy; the consequences of female proletarianization in Southeast Asia; the implications for regional development of the incorporation of Mexico and Malaysia in the world economy; the internationalization of commercial capital and the development of financial centres; and the connection between global restructuring and urban politics in the United States.
List of contents
INTRODUCTION
Techno-Economic Restructuring, Socio-Political Processes and Spatial Transformation - Manuel Castells and Jeffrey Henderson
A Global Perspective
CAPITAL, LABOUR AND THE DYNAMICS OF GLOBAL RESTRUCTURING
Global Factory and Company Town - Richard Child Hill
The Changing Division of Labour in the International Automobile Industry
US-Japanese Competition and the Worldwide Restructuring of the Electronics Industry - Dieter Ernst
A European View
Issues of Core and Periphery - Saskia Sassen-Koob
Labour Migration and Global Restructuring
Policing the Frontiers - Robin Cohen
The State and the Migrant in the International Division of Labour
Women Electronics Workers in Southeast Asia - Vivian Lin
The Emergence of a Working Class
REGIONAL CONSEQUENCES OF GLOBAL RESTRUCTURING
Exploring the Spatial Effects of the Internationalization of the Mexican Economy - Manuel Perlo Cohen
Social Forces, the State and the International Division of Labour - Kamal Salih and Mei Ling Young
The Case of Malaysia
THE URBAN DIMENSION OF GLOBAL RESTRUCTURING
The Fixers - Nigel Thrift
The Urban Geography of International Commercial Capital
Global Capital Restructuring and Local Political Crises in the US Cities - Michael Peter Smith
Summary
Provides the elements for a theory of spatial development to explain the socio-territorial reality produced by global restructuring in the 1970s and 1980s. The book covers topics, including: restructuring in the automobile and electronics industries; and, the significance of migrant labour and the informal economy.
