Regional Transformation, Everyday Life, and Pacific Northwest Lumber Production

摘要: I am integrating a theory of the political economy regional change with literature on structuration theory, focusing labor process. Employing Massey's “geological” metaphor, argue that spatial division is reproduced through business cycles successively comparative advantage individual areas and restructure local social relations. The precise form such process contingent upon ideologies actors. lumber industry Pacific Northwest illustrates this theme empirically. Several “rounds production” are identified statistically. turbulent past region's then recreated, upholding ideology actions unions as necessary analytical moments in its territorial reproduction within each wave production. Finally, explore nature renewed geography sensitive to uniqueness.