ABSTRACT
This chapter the articulation of the economic, social and spatial shifts that can be observed for more than ten years and to try to extract some possible consequences for the future of the capitalist mode of production. In considering this tendency towards spatial inversion in France, one of the main reasons for the new dynamism is the growing importance of small- and medium-scale firms in existing and new locations. Large industrial corporations try to take advantage of the technological innovation of smaller firms by developing some new ways of external cooperation. But changes in productive machinery and enterprise organisation entail the necessity of intensifying work itself. Socio-economic relationship model takes place inside the rupture of the social contract between capital and labour which was the major feature of the period of full employment.
