Today the global spatial structure of the textile and apparel industries is evolving largely in
response to trade policy. Increased foreign competition has prompted developed nations to …

Throughout the 20th century, the global clothing industry experienced major geographical
shifts, new forms of governance, changing producer and buyer relations and unevenly …

Abstract P ickles J. and S mith A. Delocalization and persistence in the European clothing
industry: the reconfiguration of trade and production networks, Regional Studies. This paper …

Four questions are addressed in this chapter. First, as regions mature, what happens to their
overall economic trade relationships, both internally and with other regions? Second, is the …

What are the forces that are driving firms and industries to globalize their operations? This
volume explores how specific industries have organized their global operations through …

The heart of every economy is industrial production, and the heart of economic geography
lies in the spatial patterns and physical landscapes industry creates. Industry location may …

A basic approach to the geographic investigation of low-technology, labor-intensive
industries is sketched out by invoking notions of industrial organization, locational …

While apparel manufacturing is often considered the quintessential global industry, the
regional dimension of trade and production in the textile and clothing sector is less widely …

This paper helps to set the scene for this special issue on automotive restructuring and
policy responses. It starts by providing a brief introduction to the different inventory and …

The enhanced integration of production across geopolitical boundaries since the 1970s
highlights the restructuring endemic to many industries in high-wage economies of the West …