Teleworking, "rural migration" and "urban migration": demographic impact of industrial revolutions, end of geographical distance as a key factor of labor or channel of individual and territorial inequalities?

Last week, I spoke briefly about what an industrial revolution is, from an economic point of view, insisting on the Schumpeterian definition of the concept. Today, let us have a look at the human and geographical implications of the phenomenon and in particular the question of internal demographic migration.

If the industrial concentration has promoted demographic concentration and the phenomenom of “metropolisation”, the revolution 4.0, with its decentralized models and the development of teleworking, (almost impossible for crafts skills that requires a physical presence and physical structure), could transformed, in the short or medium term, the labour market and the human geography of the territories, but also the systems of solidarity in their globalities …