The Dynamics of Industrial Location: The Factory, the Firm and the Production System - Softcover

Hayter, Roger

9780471971191: The Dynamics of Industrial Location: The Factory, the Firm and the Production System

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471971197 ISBN 13: 9780471971191

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 1997

An elegant, coherent, and readable synthesis of contemporary modern geography that explores the "new industrial spaces." The author′s tripartite conceptualization of the three scales at which the processes of industrial location operate—the plant, the firm, the production system—provides a strong framework to enhance student understanding.

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Review:

"...Hayter should be congratulated for producing a very detailed and accessible account of the geography of industrial change..." -- AREA February 2000

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A modern textbook on industrial geography that systematically explores the location dynamics of factories, firms and production systems within the context of the problem of industrial transformation.

The most comprehensive treatment of contemporary industrial geography, including new approaches to factory location and the geography of the firm, and discussions of industrial districts, flexible specialisation, restructuring, truncated economies and de–industrialization
Adopts a clear but elegant structure in which the factory, the firm and the production system, provide related and progressively complex building blocks
Well written and clearly illustrated with case studies and examples from all over the world which explicitly integrate the geographical and organizational dimensions of industrial change

The Dynamics of Industrial Location is a cornerstone text for the teaching of economic geography which effectively incorporates the results of the transformation of manufacturing in the past decade, the impact of de–industrialization, post–Fordism and the globalization of production in a way that previous textbooks were unable to do. Policy issues are addressed throughout the book. Roger Hayter has written a modern text that is the first student level treatment of ‘new industrial spaces’. He brings together the conceptual idea and the empirical example. The book brims with interesting real world illustrations, along with insightful applications of theory. This is quite simply the first choice adoptable textbook for second (and upper) level industrial geography courses. It will also be of considerable relevance for regional, community and environmental planners and for students in urban studies, business–and regional economics.

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