Regional analysis and the new international division of labor : applications of a political economy approach

1 Regional Political Economy: An Introduction and Overview.- I Theory, Method, and Concepts.- 2 The Theories and Methods of Regional Science and Regional Political Economy Compared.- 3 Social Spaceness and the Concept of Region.- 4 Regions and Regionalism.- 5 Commodity Production and Interregional Transfers of Value.- II Applications to Developing Countries.- 6 Mode of Production and Spatial Organization in Peru.- 7 The Internationalization of Capital and the Spatial Organization of Agriculture in Mexico.- III Applications to Developed Countries.- 8 The Implications of Industry Restructuring for Spatial Organization in the United States.- 9 The New Spatial Organization of the European and American Automotive Industries.- 10 Labor Migration and the Role of the State: The Immigration Policy of the Belgian Government.- List of Contributors.