Restructuring and the Nonmetropolitan Turnaround: The California Evidence

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Issue Date
1986-01-01Author
Warf, Barney L.
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Type
Article
Article Version
Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
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Conceptions of nonmetropolitan growth have rarely benefited from current debates in social theory. An analytical interpretation of the literature on the "turnaround" is offered from a structuralist perspective. In this model of industrial restructuring, the routinization of the labor process via capital intensification is seen to engender the dispersal of firms to outlying areas through the internalization of linkages. Empirical evidence from California confirms this notion, as population growth is tied to labor markets in which capital-intensive production forms are extensive. Economic base analysis indicates the rapid growth of the service sector is relatively less significant in such areas.
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This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/yearbook_of_the_association_of_pacific_coast_geographers/v048/48.warf.html.
ISSN
0066-9628Collections
Citation
Warf, Barney L. (1986). "Restructuring and the Nonmetropolitan Turnaround: The California Evidence." Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, 48:125-147. http://www.dx.doi.org/10.1353/pcg.1986.0002
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