diff --git a/scrapy/conf/default_settings.py b/scrapy/conf/default_settings.py
index d2a922d8f..829208a4b 100644
--- a/scrapy/conf/default_settings.py
+++ b/scrapy/conf/default_settings.py
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ SCHEDULER_ORDER = 'DFO'
 SERVICE_QUEUE = 'scrapy.contrib.queue.SqliteExecutionQueue'
 SERVICE_QUEUE_FILE = 'scrapy.db'
 
-SPIDER_MANAGER_CLASS = 'scrapy.contrib.spidermanager.SpiderManager'
+SPIDER_MANAGER_CLASS = 'scrapy.spidermanager.SpiderManager'
 
 SPIDER_MIDDLEWARES = {}
 
diff --git a/scrapy/contrib/spidermanager.py b/scrapy/spidermanager.py
similarity index 100%
rename from scrapy/contrib/spidermanager.py
rename to scrapy/spidermanager.py
diff --git a/scrapy/tests/test_contrib_spidermanager/__init__.py b/scrapy/tests/test_contrib_spidermanager/__init__.py
index c7a05d560..62175caa0 100644
--- a/scrapy/tests/test_contrib_spidermanager/__init__.py
+++ b/scrapy/tests/test_contrib_spidermanager/__init__.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ from twisted.trial import unittest
 # ugly hack to avoid cyclic imports of scrapy.spider when running this test
 # alone
 import scrapy.spider
-from scrapy.contrib.spidermanager import SpiderManager
+from scrapy.spidermanager import SpiderManager
 from scrapy.http import Request
 
 module_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))