Pathways to Industrialization and Regional Development

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The world has witnessed a shift in socio-economic relations and in the patterns and processes of industrialization and regional development. The paradigm of mass production has been replaced by radically new forms of organizing industrial production. The world's map of industrial growth and competitiveness has been dramatically altered by these developments: managerial practices have been overturned in many places; the institutional arrangements between unions and firms have given way; and a series of concentrated new industrial core regions of the world centers of flexible, learning-based production have arisen.

Pathways to Industrialization and Regional Development gathers the principal theoreticians concerned with these issues from a range of disciplines and countries in which these matters have most powerfully emerged. Focusing upon the interactions between economic logic and political institutions at both the local and global levels, the contributors map out the possible pathways to industrial and regional development in the 1990s.

An integrated collection of interdisciplinary writings by major academic figures world-wide, this work will be of great interest to students and scholars of economics, geography, development and urban studies.

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ISBN-13: 9780415087520
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 11/17/1992
Pages: 420
Product dimensions: 6.14 (w) x 9.21 (h) x 1.00 (d)

	List of figures
	List of tables
	Notes on contributors
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
Pt. I	Introduction
1	Industrialization and Regional Development	3
Pt. II	A new period in capitalist development?
2	Fordist and Post-Fordist International Division of Labor and Monetary Regimes	21
3	Fordism and Post-Fordism: A Critical Reformulation	46
4	Flexible Specialization Versus Post-Fordism: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications	70
5	The Japanese Model of Post-Fordism	116
Pt. III	New technologies and the organization of industrial production
6	The Revitalization of Mass Production in the Computer Age	137
7	Technological Trajectories and the Classical Revival in Economics	157
8	The Structure of Industrial Production and the Boundaries Between Firms and Markets	171
Pt. IV	The territorial foundations of production systems
9	Trust, Community, and Cooperation: Toward a Theory of Industrial Districts	195
10	A Reexamination of the Italian Model of Flexible Production from a Comparative Point of View	205
11	Industrial Development and Local Industrial Systems in Postwar France	216
12	Localized Industrial Systems in France: A Particular Type of Industrial System	230
Pt. V	The incorporation of labor
13	Alternative Routes to Labor Flexibility	255
14	Labor Conventions, Economic Fluctuations, and Flexibility	276
Pt. VI	Collective order and industrial policy in post-Fordism
15	Levels of Policy and the Nature of Post-Fordist Competition	303
16	Divergent Patterns of Business Organization in Silicon Valley	316
17	Conceptual Fallacies and Open Questions on Post-Fordism	332
	Notes and bibliographies	349
	Index	402

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