By Derek Gregory, John Urry
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Agnew summarises: In the contemporary United States historical circumstances have kept the population more closely wedded to the classic capitalist order. " 3. the degree to which more generally the social relations within civil society are based on the 'local community' rather than on either commodity relations or on the state. " Market transactions within such a place-bound community are indelibly suffused by considerations of long-term reciprocity and community. Interactions occur within a given physical setting, and one's living space is necessarily personalised, John Urry 41 particularised and non-directly commodifiable.
It is also important to note that significant changes can occur 38 Social Relations. Space and Time among these five sets of relations. " This is because the growth of a worldwide market for labour greatly expands the range of alternative localities within which the same necessary capitalist relations can be established and reproduced; it is then a relatively contingent matter as to exactly where those relations will in fact be found . My discussion thus far has been very general; I will now try to make this more specificby considering: (i) some of the different forms of the spatial division of labour which result from particular patterns of capitalist restructuring in which decisions about spatial location are to be seen as subordinate to the necessities implied by accumulation;62 and (ii) some of the different ways in which a given civil society is spatially structured - such structurings not being viewed as simple emanations of the mode of production, as Aglietta seems to claim for the 'mode of consumption'i'" Spatial divisions oflabour There appear to be six forms of the spatial division of labour which will characterise any particular industrial sector: 1.
However, we now know that this is simply not the case. A further crucial step in the analysis is to consider whether a given civil society is structured in such a way that there are already established or potential bases for collective action which can in a sense dissipate the individual selfinterest generated within the capitalist economy. " Establishing and maintaining such identities depends upon the particular temporal and spatial structurings of civil society. Such structurings are crucial in providing some non-collective benefits from collective organisation which may thereby be contingently and precariously sustained.