I continue the analyses of the social impacts of change in this chapter, expanding the focus from the community to the workplace. Given the fact that impacts in the community occur unevenly, can we expect the processes of globalization, restructuring, and spatialization to have similar effects on the shopfloor? As discussed in Chapters Three and Four, global competition has compelled firms within the United States textile-mill complex to develop a new retail orientation that emphasizes quality control and quick response to changing market conditions (Bonham 1991). But new technologies are not neutral-they can have both negative and positive consequences for workers on the shopfloor.