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Thus, in the 1970s, when faced with the choice between meeting the demands from below for the fulfillment of the hegemonic promises or the demands fr om capitalists for a restoration of favorable conditions for capi­tal accumulation, metropolitan states attempted not to choose. In response, capital…

Moreover, in transportation industries, it is not easy to devise (much less practically carry out) spatial fixes as counterweights to labor's strong work­place bargaining power. Particularly troublesome nodes might be elimi­nated entirely fr om the distribution network - that is, unruly or otherwis…

The ability of both textile and auto workers to make substantial and durable gains at the end of the innovation phase suggests that the monop­olistic windfall profits reaped by the innovator in any given product cycle also creates favorable conditions (at least the material resources) for stable la…

The combination of these strategies - the spatial fix and the tech­nological/organizational fix - may be leading to the re-consolidation of a spatially bifurcated process. On the one hand, new innovations in or­ganization and technology, to the extent they can be monopolized by the innovators, prov…

[...] the windfall profits that ac­cru ed to U.S. automakers helped them underwrite a stable lab or-capital accord and mass consumption social contract that lasted for more than four decades after the CIO struggles of the 1930s. In contrast, the lower profit levels associated with the intense compe…