Australiana

Robert Cooksey (ed.), The Great Depression in Australia, Labour History, 17, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Canberra, 1970, pp. 186, $2.50 ($1.50 to members).

Bob Bottom, Behind the Barrier, Gareth Powell Associates, Sydney, n.d. (1970?), $2.50.

B. C. Fitzgerald (ed.), Background to Politics: a sourcebook of major documents and statements which affect the course of Australian politics, Cheshire, Melbourne, 1969, pp. 130, $2.75.

Athol Jones, ABC of Politics, Cassell Australia, Melbourne, 1970, pp. 280, $3.50.

D. M. Lamberton, Science, Technology, and the Australian Economy, Tudor Press, Sydney, 1970, pp. 286 + iii, $2.25.

Hans Mol, Christianity in Chains: A Sociologist's Interpretation of the Churches’ Dilemma in a Secular World, Nelson (Australia), Melbourne, 1969, pp. 120, $1.95.

Grey Hodnett and Peter J. Potichnyj, The Ukraine and the Czechoslovak Crisis, Occasional Paper No. 6, Department of Political Science, A.N.U.‐I.A.S., A.N.U. Press, Canberra, 1970, pp. 154+ v, $1.50.

Charles Osborne (ed.), Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific: A Handbook, Anthony Blond, London, 1970, pp. 580+ xi, $15.40.

B. A. Santamaria, The Defence of Australia, Hawthorn Press, Melbourne, 1970, pp. 147, $1.85.

R. J. W. Selleck (ed), Melbourne Studies in Education, 1970, Melbourne University Press, 1970, pp. 264 + vii, $6.75.

Australian Association of Adult Education, The Political Education of Australians, A.A.A.E., Canberra, 1969, pp. 92 + xii, $1.00.

Paul Hasluck, Black Australians: A Survey of Native Policy in Western Australia, 1829–1897, Melbourne University Press, 1970, pp. 229, $6.75.

Richard P. Davis, State Aid and Tasmanian Politics, 1868–1920, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 1969, pp. 135 + iv. From University Bookshop, Hobart, $2.65 ($2.75 overseas) posted.

Joseph Martin, A Guide to Economic Policy in Australia, West Publishing Corporation, Sydney, 1969, pp. 164 + xi, $2.50.

George Mitchell, Growers in Action: Official History of the Victorian Wheat and Wool‐growers’ Association, 1927–1968, Hawthorn Press, Melbourne, 1969, pp. 356 + vi, $5.50.

L. E. Fredman, The Australian Ballot: Story of an American Reform, Michigan State University Press, Lansing, 1968, pp. 150 + xii, $U.S.5.75.

Bruce Sutherland, Australiana in the Pennsylvania State University Libraries, Bibliographical Series No. 1, Pennsylvania State University Libraries, University Park, Penn., 1969, pp. 391 + x, n.p.

Sidney Sax (ed.), The Aged in Australian Society, Angus and Robertson in association with ANZAAS, Sydney, 1970, pp. 137, n.p.

D. C. Thomson (ed.), Industrial Relations in the I970's, Law Book Co., Sydney, 1970, pp. 81 + vii, $2.85.

N. E. Lauritz, The Vietnam Moratorium, Hawthorn Press, Melbourne, 1970, pp. 40, 50c.

Sean Glynn, Urbanisation in Australian History, 1788–1900, Nelson, Melbourne, 1970, pp. 67, 95c.

R. L. Wettenhall, The Iron Road and the State: W. M. Acworth as Scholar, Critic and Reformer, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 1970, pp. 69 + iii, $1 plus postage, from Univ. of Tas. Bookroom.

T. B. Millar, Soviet Policies in the Indian Ocean Area, Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence, 7, A.N.U. Press, Canberra, 1970, pp. 22, 90c.

Malcolm Mackerras (ed.), The State of Play, Politics Reference Monograph 1 and 2.APSA, Sydney, 1970, pp. 8; 20c (posted) No. 1, 15c No. 2, from Mr. Ken Chan, Dept. of Govt., Univ. of Sydney.

The latest University Studies in History, 1969, G. C. Bolton and J. A. Merritt (eds.), University of W.A. Press, pp. 94, $1.05     

The Hinterland's Stake in Metropolitan Growth: Evidence from Selected Southern Regions

In this article we extend the Carlino and Mills and Boarnet models of local development to test for the presence and direction of rural area linkages to urban areas in Functional Economic Areas (FEAs). In a sample of southern FEAs, we detect a mix of spillover and backwash effects from urban core and fringe areas to their rural hinterlands. Rural-area population and employment both grew faster than average between 1980 and 1990 if in an FEA with a pattern of urban decentralization.     

Capital, State and Space: Contesting the Borderless World

The globalization of economic activities and transnational corporations (TNCs) has led us to think that we are entering a 'borderless' world. Some prophets of globalization argue that it has led to the end of geography. To them, the state has ceased to be an institution capable of exerting influences on the activities of transnational capital, which has also become increasingly 'placeless'. This paper aims to contest the issue of the alleged end-state discourse of a 'borderless' world. It argues that, despite the accelerated processes of globalization, national boundaries still matter in the decision-making and global reach of capital. The notion of a 'borderless' world is more folklore than reality. Based on theoretical and empirical literature in international political economy and business studies, the paper offers a dialectical perspective that examines the changing relationship between capital and the state, and the embedded relationship between capital and space in the organization of the global space-economy. Together, both arguments point to the importance of understanding dynamic transformations of the global economy, before considering its globalization tendencies.