Soja, E' W' 1987' Economic restructuring and the internationalization of the Los Angeles region' The

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• Soja, E. W. (1987). Economic restructuring and
  the internationalization of the Los Angeles
  region. The Capitalist city global restructuring
  and community politics. M. P. Smith and J. R.
  Feagin. New York, NY, B. Blackwell 178-197.
• Three pairs of relationships
• Soja spells out three paired relationships which
  together depict the underlying and often
  contradictory dynamic of contemporary urban and
  regional restructuring. These include
• Deindustrialization and reindustrialization
• Geographic decentralization and recentralization
• Peripheralization of labor and the
  internationalization of capital

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1. deindustrialization and reindustrialization

• Deindustrialization disinvestment in and closure
  of U.S. based auto industry and auto related
  industry (tires, glass, steel)
• Reindustrialization esp. in 2 segments--(a) high
  tech (b) garment industry
• Soja, E. W. (1987). Economic restructuring and
  the internationalization of the Los Angeles
  region. The Capitalist city global restructuring
  and community politics. M. P. Smith and J. R.
  Feagin. New York, NY, B. Blackwell 178-197.

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2. geographic decentralization and
recentralization

• Decentralization Historical view (19th century,
  Post-War). The contemporary period--"the great
  non-metropolitan turn around" global in scope.
• Recentralization (a) downtown "renaissance," (b)
  world cities, (c) new territorial production
  complexes.

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3. Peripheralization of labor and the
internationalization of capital

• Inflow of immigrant labor
• Inflow of capital
• important terms
• Internationalization
• refers to (a) the interconnected and global scale
  of events (e.g., the world system, the
  organization of an international division of
  labor) and (b) the ways in which these
  interconnections/events affect social and
  economic restructuring at local, regional and
  global scales.
• Restructuring
• Refers to (a) conveys a break in secular trends
  and a shift towards a significantly different
  order and configuration of social, economic and
  political life (b) rooted in crisis and a
  competitive conflict between an "inherited" and a
  "projected" order.