ISBN:
9781847200549
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 507 p)
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ill., maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Handbook of Employment and Society : Working Space
DDC:
302.35
Keywords:
Organizational sociology Congresses
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Work environment Congresses
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Work Congresses Social aspects
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Work ; Social aspects ; Congresses
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Organizational sociology ; Congresses
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Work environment ; Congresses
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Electronic books
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Konferenzschrift
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Konferenzschrift
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Konferenzschrift
Abstract:
This handbook deepens and extends the engagement between research concerned with work and employment, and labor geography. It links fundamental concepts concerning the politics of place that human geographers have developed in recent years with the world of work. Internationally recognized scholars from around the world have been brought together to debate the questions that arise at the intersection of the worlds of production, reproduction and consumption. They consider developments in the geographical and work and employment literature, as well as theorizing and understanding how social act
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables and boxes; Contributors; 1 Foundations; PART 1 WORK, SPACE AND THE STATE; 2 Globalisation and the state; 3 Creating markets, contesting markets: labour internationalism and the European Common Transport Policy; PART 2 WORKING SPACES; 4 Working spaces; Section 2.1 Regionalisation, Globalisation and Labour; 5 Labour markets from the bottom up; 6 Clothing workers after worker states: the consequences for work and labour of outsourcing, nearshoring and delocalisation in postsocialist Europe
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7 Tele-mediated servants and self-servants of the global economy: labour in the era of ICT-enabled e-commerce8 Gender, space and labour market participation: the experiences of British Pakistani women; 9 Filipino migration and the spatialities of labour market subordination; Section 2.2 Building Space; 10 Competing geographies of welfare capitalism and its workers: Kohler Village and the spatial politics of planned company towns; 11 Work, place and community in socialism and postsocialism; 12 Plastic palm trees and blue pumpkins: synthetic fun and real control in contemporary workspace
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13 Dormitory labour regimes and the labour process in China: new workers in old factory formsPART 3 WORKERS IN SPACE; 14 Workers in space; Section 3.1 Labour Institutions in Space and Place; 15 Global unions versus global capital: or, the complexity of transnational labour relations; 16 Methodological nationalism and territorial capitalism: mobile labour and the challenges to the 'German Model'; 17 European Works Councils: from the local to the global?; 18 The new economic model and spatial changes in labour relations in post-NAFTA Mexico; Section 3.2 Organising in Space and Place
Description / Table of Contents:
19 Contested space: union organising in the old economy20 Contesting the new politics of space: labour and capital in the white goods industry in southern Africa; 21 The multi-scalarity of trade union practice; 22 Working space and the New Labour Internationalism; 23 Online union campaigns and the shrinking globe:the LabourStart experience; 24 'Across the great divide': local and global trade union responses to call centre off shoring to India; PART 4 AFTERWORD; 25 Workers, economies, geographies; Index
Note:
"The origins of this book lie in a workshop held by the Department of Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney in 2001" -- p. 1
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