Technopolis

  PREFACE

 collapse sectionPART 1—  SETTING THE SCENE
 expand sectionChapter 1—  The Southern Californian Technopolis in Context
 expand sectionChapter 2—  Patterns of Industrialization and Regional Development

 collapse sectionPART II—  A GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAN TECHNOPOLIS
 expand sectionChapter 3—  The Structure and Organization of High-technology Industry in Southern California:  A Brief Profile
 expand sectionChapter 4—  Southern California's Pathway to High-technology Industrial Development, 1920–1960

 collapse sectionPART III—  ANALYSES OF THE CORE HIGH-TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
 expand sectionChapter 5—  The Aircraft and Parts Industry
 expand sectionChapter 6—  The Missile and Space Industry:  The Southern Californian Nexus in National Context
 expand sectionChapter 7—  The Electronics Industry

 collapse sectionPART IV—  LOCAL LABOR MARKETS:  TWO CONTRASTING CASES
 expand sectionChapter 8—  The Local Labor Market Dynamics of a Cohort of Engineers and Scientists
 expand sectionChapter 9—  Electronics Assembly Workers in Southern California

 collapse sectionPART V—  INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION, INNOVATION, AND LOCATION
 expand sectionChapter 10—  Subcontracting Relations and Locational Agglomeration in the Printed Circuits Industry
 expand sectionChapter 11—  Innovation, New Firm Formation, and Location in Southern California's Medical Device Industry

 collapse sectionPART VI—  FINALE
 expand sectionChapter 12—  Questions of Policy and Strategic Choice:  Collective Action and Regional Development in the New Global Economy

 expand sectionAPPENDICES
  REFERENCES
 expand sectionINDEX

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