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The Restructuring of the Post-war British Space Economy

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The Geography of De-industrialisation

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Abstract

Our aim is to outline some of the principal changes in the regional geography of the UK since 1945. At the root of the restructuring of its geography is a continuously changing functional and spatial differentiation of the process of social reproduction. In complex societies the process of social reproduction is split up into a large number of functionally differentiated activities. At the same time a territorial division of labour is established in which (1) different branches of production or particular phases in the production of a single commodity, good or service are confined to particular districts of a country, and (2) a variety of aggregated regional complexes of intra- and interregionally interdependent functions of production, distribution, circulation and consumption are established (see Lapple and van Hoogstraaten, 1980, pp. 117–32; Dunford and Perrons, 1983, pp. 352–7; and Marx, Capita, vol. 1, pp. 470–80).

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  1. Mick Dunford
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  1. Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK

    Ron Martin

  2. University of Cambridge, UK

    Bob Rowthorn (Faculty of Economics and Politics) (Faculty of Economics and Politics)

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Dunford, M., Perrons, D. (1986). The Restructuring of the Post-war British Space Economy. In: Martin, R., Rowthorn, B. (eds) The Geography of De-industrialisation. Critical Human Geography. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18501-6_3

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