LOOK AFTER THE POUNDS AND THE PEOPLE WILL LOOK AFTER THEMSELVES - SOCIAL REPRODUCTION, REGULATION, AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION IN WESTERN-EUROPE

In considering the nature of and route to a desired end point of transition, regulationist models may overlook or internalise the reproduction of labour. Against the background of growing and chronic unemployment in western Europe, an argument is made for the exogeneity of the social reproduction of labour. The conclusion makes a case for a return to considerations of moral, or the reconstruction of civil, economic geographies.