Sean Tarjoto								Prof. Neil Brenner
Urban Political Economy						October 23, 2001

Reaction to Logan & Molotch “Urban Fortunes & the Political Economy of Place”

The cross-class alliances which promote development in areas where the interest is in increasing employment may have the mutual interest in decreasing the crime rate.  This is a basic motive for social organization.

The aggregate wealth of a highly developed area is trapped by “local growth coalitions” which, are usually spearheaded by periphery communities, local representatives of those communities,  and sometimes organized labor. The aggregate wealth that is most directly controlled by area residents have an interest in working with coalition “core groups” to promote land value. 

Is the role of accumulation to polarize the struggle between capital and labor? The profit engine sustains itself through a geography of uneven development, manipulating the secondary circuit of residential real estate.  Without a detailed understanding of the effect and motive of the secondary circuits effect (or motive) on the wage system, cross-class coalitions will have difficulty sustaining themselves; in the interest of the profit engine and at the expense of growth and progress.  If this is true, it is essential that these coalitions set legal and historical precedents because they exist as very important junction points in the struggle between capital and labor.