ABSTRACT
The Urban/Rural Shift in population and employment is a well-known feature of the US and the UK in the 1960s and 1970s and has been identified in a number of other developed countries (Champion, 1989). The general acceptance of the thesis of Fothergill and Gudgin (1982), that employment trends, particularly in manufacturing, varied systematically between heavy decline in London and the conurbations and growth in rural areas, sits oddly, at first sight, with the traditional RSA regional structure of Part II of this volume.
