ABSTRACT
A theme running through the last two chapters has been that the rural/ agricultural and urban/industrial space economies are increasingly linked by flows of wealth, people and knowledge. However, what has not been discussed in any detail is how these interactions impact on production in rural and urban areas. If rural households are sending members to work in industry, what effect does the loss of labour have on agricultural methods and production? If, at the same time, urban areas are receiving influxes of labour from rural areas, how has this contributed to the character of the city and its activities? Nor is it just a case of labour movements contributing to change; the remittance flows which result from such movements, and which in many instances represent their very raison d’être, open up new avenues and possibilities for change.1 It is the more tangible impacts of such interactions that are the concern of this chapter.2
