>Posted on 25 Feb 1995 at 17:20:05 by TELEC List Distributor (011802) > >[PEN-L:4284] biotechnology > >Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 14:17:52 -0800 >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Nicholas Witheford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >This is to ask if anyone can give me recommendations on books and >articles offering critical analysis of the political economy of the >biotechnology industry. I'm particularly >interested in/ repelled by the potential use of this technology as >a means for capital to exercise quality control over the reproduction of >labour power. > With thanks in advance, > Mutantly, > Nick Witheford I've published two articles on biotech, both of which approach the issue from the point of spatial organization and economic development: Feldman, Marshall M.A. 1985a. Biotechnology and local economic growth: The American pattern. Pp. 65-79 in _Silicon landscapes_, ed. Peter Hall and Ann Markusen. Boston: Allen & Unwin. --------. 1985b. Patterns of biotechnology development. Pp. 93-107 in _The future of urban form: The impact of new technology_, ed. John Brotchie, Peter Newton, Peter Hall, and Peter Nijkamp. London: Croom Helm. Also check out, Kenney, Martin. 1986. _Biotechnology: The university-industrial complex_ New Haven: Yale University Press. Marsh Feldman Community Planning Phone: 401/792-5953 204 Rodman Hall FAX: 401/792-4395 University of Rhode Island Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kingston, RI 02881-0815 "Marginality confers legitimacy on one's contrariness."