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

Francis Aubert, Carl Gaigne, Cesaer Dijon and Rennes France
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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

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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.

Date: 2006-06-13
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Published in CORE 40 Years Louvain la Neuve University june 2006_"Cities and Globalization", Louvain la Neuve University, Jun 2006, Louvain la Neuve, Belgium

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