Current spatial restructuring, resulting from the joint effects of globalisation and metropolitan sevelopment, still allows medium-sized towns, and their networks of smaller, local towns, to play a role of economic development when they are located on the fringes of a large metropolitan region (in this case the Greater Lyon region), in particular due to the importance of public sector employment. The maintenance of such jobs appears to be a last chance to avoid economic stagnation and the marginalisation of such territories. Simultaneously, and especially in the hearth services, where a new organisation of employment is taking place, state sector jobs no longer seem able to play their role as a means of social integration. Conversely, such employment illustrates the ambiguous role that medium-sized towns currently play in socio- spatial organisation.
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