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Industrial location and labour demand: a history of change between agglomeration and dispersion
[Localisation industrielle et demande de travail : une perspective historique entre agglomération et dispersion]

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  • Francis Aubert

    (CESAER - Centre d'Economie et de Sociologie Rurales Appliquées à l'Agriculture et aux Espaces Ruraux - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement)

  • Carl Gaigne

    (CESAER - Centre d'Economie et de Sociologie Rurales Appliquées à l'Agriculture et aux Espaces Ruraux - ENESAD - Etablissement National d'Enseignement Supérieur Agronomique de Dijon - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique)

  • Cesaer Dijon
  • Rennes France

Abstract

This communication sets out the highlights in the changing features of industrial location, with a special attention to the town-country relationship, as established by historical research. More precisely, we suggest a simplified pattern based on the labour factor and more particularly on the labour demand. We attempt to periodize the long-term changing of industrial locations, since the « pre-industrial period ». This is not an overview of the main stages of urban and rural development, as in Bairoch or Hoehenberg & Lees. The history of change may contribute to clarify the following question, in relation with Fujita & Thisse « fundamental question »: « why don't all economic activities tend to agglomerate in a small number of places-typically cities? ». After presenting the spatial dimension of the labour demand, we propose 3 main periods to account the spatial dynamics of industry over the last two centuries on the basis of changes in the labour demand.

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  • Francis Aubert & Carl Gaigne & Cesaer Dijon & Rennes France, 2006. "Industrial location and labour demand: a history of change between agglomeration and dispersion [Localisation industrielle et demande de travail : une perspective historique entre agglomération et dispersion]," Post-Print hal-04368302, HAL.
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