Pathways to Industrialization and Regional Development

387 Pages·1992·5.726 MB·English

by  Pathways to Industrialization and Regional Development

PATHWAYS INDUSTRIALIZATION AND
REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT

PATHWAYS TO
INDUSTRIALIZATION
AND REGIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
Edited by Michael Storper and
Allen ]. Scott
First published 1992 by Routledge
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Pathways to industrialization and regional development I edited by
Michael Storper and Allen J. Scott.
p. em.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-41S...08752-X
1. Industrialization-Congresses. 2. Regional planning
Congresses. 3. Industry and state-Congresses. I. Storper,
Michael. II. Scott, Allen John.
HD2329.P38 1992
338.9-dc20
92-10397
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CONTENTS

List of figures vii
List of tables viii
Notes on contributors ix
Preface x
Acknowledgments xi

Part I Introduction

1 INDUSTRIALIZATION AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT 3

Allen J.Scott and Michael Storper

Part II A new period in capitalist development?

2 FORDIST AND POST-FORDIST INTERNATIONAL DIVISION OF LABOR 19
AND MONETARY REGIMES
Elmar Altvater
3 FORDISM AND POST-FORDISM: A CRITICAL REFORMULATION 42

Bob Jessop
4 FLEXIBLE SPECIALIZATION VERSUS POST-FORDISM: THEORY, 63
EVIDENCE, AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS
Paul Hirst and Jonathan Zeitlin
5 THE JAPANESE MODEL OF POST-FORDISM 102

Makoto Itoh

Part III New technologies and the organization of industrial production

6 THE REVITALIZATION OF MASS PRODUCTION IN THE COMPUTER 121
AGE
Benjamin Coriat
7 TECHNOLOGICAL TRAJECTORIES AND THE CLASSICAL REVIVAL IN 140
ECONOMICS
Michael Piore
8 THE STRUCTURE OF INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION AND THE 152
BOUNDARIES BETWEEN FIRMS AND MARKETS
Giovanni Dosi and Roberta Salvatore
Part IV The territorial foundations of production systems

9 TRUST, COMMUNITY, AND COOPERATION: TOWARD A THEORY OF 175
INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS
Edward H.Lorenz
10 A REEXAMINATION OF THE ITALIAN MODEL OF FLEXIBLE 183
PRODUCTION FROM A COMPARATIVE POINT OF VIEW
Bruno Courault and Claudine Romani
11 INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND LOCAL INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS IN 193
POSTWAR FRANCE
Bernard Ganne
12 LOCALIZED INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS IN FRANCE: A PARTICULAR 205
TYPE OF INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM
Jean Saglio

Part V The incorporation of labor

13 ALTERNATIVE ROUTES TO LABOR FLEXIBILITY 227

Guy Standing
14 LABOR CONVENTIONS, ECONOMIC FLUCTUATIONS, AND 245
FLEXIBILITY
Robert Salais

Part VI Collective order and industrial policy in post-Fordism

15 LEVELS OF POLICY AND THE NATURE OF POST-FORDIST 270
COMPETITION
Patrizio Bianchi
16 DIVERGENT PATTERNS OF BUSINESS ORGANIZATION IN SILICON 282
VALLEY
AnnaLee Saxenian
17 CONCEPTUAL FALLACIES AND OPEN QUESTIONS ON POST- 296
FORDISM
Danièle Leborgne and Alain Lipietz

Notes and bibliographies 310
Index 367
FIGURES

2.1 International configuration of national Fordisms in the “First” and “Third” 31

Worlds
2.2 Monetary systems dynamics 33
6.1 Economics of multiproduction from the Marshall effect to the Baumol effect 125
6.2 Flexible technology: long-term impact of firm capacity strategy 126
6.3 Economies of organization: content and nature 128
6.4 The Japanese revolution in product management: linearization and flexible 130

work standards
6.5 Technical flexibility and product life cycles: four basic strategies 132
6.6 Learning and experience curves 135
6.7 Origin of productivity gains and form of competition: a typology 137
6.8 The quality skills model 139
7.1 Mass production curve 143
8.1 Right cumulated distribution (Sector 1) 167
8.2 Right cumulated distribution (Sector 2) 168
8.3 Right cumulated distribution (Sector 3) 168
8.4 Right cumulated distribution (Sector 4) 169
8.5 Right cumulated distribution 169
14.1 The domains of action of unemployment and productivity conventions 250
14.2 Four models of labor conventions 258
14.3 Economic fluctuations and flexibility of labor 259
17.1 Post-Fordist industrial relations 301
17.2 Post-Fordist industrial organization 304
TABLES

2.1 Capital productivity growth (1950–84) 23
2.2 Phases of growth in industrialized countries 26
2.3 Growth rates of GDP, GDP per capita, and volume of exports 29
2.4 The structure of the US balance of payment after World War II ($billions; 35

aggregated balances)
2.5 Long-term interest rates 36
5.1 Japan’s export dependence 1935–87 104
5.2 Productivity and wages in Japanese manufacturing (annual percentage increase 105

in each five years)
5.3 Wage disparity between different sizes of manufacturing enterprises 108
8.1 Deviations of actual aggregate size distributions from implied OLS estimate of 170

Pareto distribution
15.1 Centers promoted by public authorities providing services to small and 276

medium-sized firms in the regions of Italy
CONTRIBUTORS
Elmar Altvater is Professor of Political Economy, Department of Political Science, Free
University of Berlin.
Patrizio Bianchi is Professor of Applied Economics at the Universities of Udine and
Bologna, and Director of the Laboratorio di Politica Industriale, NOMISMA, Bologna.
Benjamin Coriat is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre de Recherche en
Economie Industrielle (CREI) at the University of Paris XIII.
Bruno Courault is a researcher at the Centre d’Etudes de l’Emploi, Paris, and teaches at
the University of Paris X–Nanterre.
Giovanni Dosi is Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Rome, La
Sapienza.
Bernard Ganne is a researcher at the Groupe Lyonnais de Sociologie Industrielle, Maison
Rhône-Alpes des Sciences de l’Homme, Lyon.
Paul Hirst is Professor of Social Theory at Birkbeck College University of London.
Makoto Itoh is Professor of Economics, University of Tokyo.
Bob Jessop is Professor of Sociology, University of Lancaster, United Kingdom.
Danièle Leborgne is a researcher at the Centre d’Etudes Prospectives d’Economie
Appliquée (CEPREMAP), Paris.
Alain Lipietz is Director of Research at the Centre d’Etudes Prospectives d’Economie
Appliquée (CEPREMAP), Paris.
Edward H.Lorenz is in the Department of Economics and is a Fellow of the Kellogg
Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame.
Michael Piore is Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Claudine Romani is Deputy Officer for European Affairs at the Centre d’Etudes et de
Recherches sur les Qualifications (CEREQ), Paris.
Jean Saglio is a researcher with the Groupe Lyonnais de Sociologie Industrielle, Maison
Rhône-Alpes des Sciences de L’Homme, Lyon.
Robert Salais is Director of the Research Group Institutions, Emploi et Politique
Economique (IEPE) at the CNRS, and Administrator at INSEE, Paris.
Roberta Salavatore is a researcher at Bonifica s.p.a., Rome.
AnnaLee Saxenian is Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University
of California, Berkeley.
Allen J.Scott is Professor of Geography and Director of the Lewis Center for Regional
Policy Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Guy Standing is labor market research coordinator at the International Labour Office,
Geneva.
Michael Storper is Professor of Planning, University of California, Los Angeles.
Jonathan Zeitlin is Associate Professor of History and Industrial Relations at the
University of Wisconsin—Madison.