Remaking Regional Economies: Power, Labor and Firm Strategies

Winner of the 2009 Regional Studies Association Best Book Award!

Since the early 1980s, the region has been central to thinking about the emerging character of the global economy. In fields as diverse as business management, industrial relations, economic geography, sociology, and planning, the regional scale has emerged as an organizing concept for interpretations of economic change.

This book is both a critique of the "new regionalism" and a return to the "regional question," including al...