ABSTRACT
As the economies of the regions of the European Community react to the restructuring processes generated by the advent of the Single European Market and other global influences, so underlying divisions in the labour market are coming more to the fore with consequences for local communities and groups in the societies around Europe. Anticipating this tendency, and with an expectation that 1992 will benefit the Community overall (Cecchini 1988), there is an appreciation in the European Commission that there will be dimensions of spatial and social disadvantages to these developments.
