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 labor-capital compromises. Yet, as in the automobile industry, so in tex­tiles, once the labor movement made a show of force, capitalists responded with a spatial-fix strategy that accelerated the diffusion of production to new sites, initiating the mature phase of the industry. [...]