Rural America and the Changing Structure of Manufacturing. Spatial Implications of New Technology and Organization: A Conference Proceedings. Held in Washington, DC. on September 24-25, 1992

摘要

;Contents: Competitive Manufacturing in the 1990's: Implications for Rural Communities; Implementing the New Technologies: Problems in Peripheral Manufacturing; Service-to-Manufacturing Linkages Among Small- and Medium-Sized Firms: Prospects for Rural Industrialization; The Role of Producer Services in Modern Production Systems: Implications for Rural Development; Trade Policy, Corporate Strategy and Future Industrial Restructuring: The Impacts of Globalization on Rural Manufacturing; The False Promise of Industrial Districts for Rural Economic Development; U.S. Banking Change and Local Economic Development; Changing Employment, Earnings, and Skill Requirements in Manufacturing: The Implications for Rural Workers; Lessons for Rural America from the Decline and Restructuring of Manufacturing in the Niagara Region of Canada.