a short summary of D. Bleitrach, A. Chenu, "Aménagement : régulation ou aggravation des contradictions sociales ?" (in Aménagement du territoire et développement régional, Vol. 7, 1974, Grenoble, Documentation française, pp. 186–214.): "The authors try to bring out the sociological importance of development as currently implemented in France; to that effect, they compare official choices as expressed in planning documents (doctrines, projects, etc.) and a specific case, namely Fos-sur-Mer and the Marseille metropolitan area. Their approach revolves round the following points: the policies of territorial planning and development in France [...], the case of Fos-sur-Mer [...], the urban environment of Fos-sur-Mer's plant and finally [...] the sociological meaning of that development. In their analysis, the creation of the iron and steel complex is construed as a capitalist test of territorial development." In Capital Accumulation and Regional Development in France, first published in the journal Geoforum (1979, Vol. 10, N. 1) and reprinted in S.S. Duncan (ed.), Qualitative Change in Human Geography (Pergamon Press, 2013, pp. 81–108), M. Dunford discusses at length Bleitrach and Chenu's article "L'aménagement : régulation ou approfondissement des contradictions sociales? Un exemple: Fos-sur-Mer et l'aire métropolitaine marseillaise" (in Environment and Planning A, 1975, 7, pp. 367–391) (see pp. 98, 99, 102, 106): "BLEITRACH and CHENU (1975) make a number of important points about the nature of planning in contemporary France. They argue that the Plan is an instrument of general planning between fractions of the dominant class which results in an effective programming of certain activities and an agreement on the broad aspects of government policy. They also point out that in the formulation of the Plan it is changes in the nature of private interests which give rise to new forms of state intervention and not vice-versa. State intervention involves a subordination of public to private interests and not private to public interests (pp. 379-380)." In the 2000s, Bleitrach's work focused on the geographic areas of Cuba and Latin America. Here she departed from her previous sociological analyses but continued to pursue a reflection on globalization, development, work and urbanization. In 2004, she co-authored Cuba est une île (2004) with Viktor Dedaj; Le Monde Diplomatique described the book as "infinitely more serious than numerous works that treat the same topic," and while warning readers would not find an examination not just of the "successes, but also the failures" of the Cuban revolution, said the book nevertheless