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Handbook Of Employment And Society |
Edited by Susan McGrath-Champ, Associate Professor in Work and Organisational Studies, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Sydney, Australia, Andrew Herod, Professor of Geography and Adjunct Professor of International Affairs and of Anthropology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. He is also an elected official, serving as a member of the government of Athens-Clarke County, Georgia, US and Al Rainnie, Professor, Graduate School of Business, Curtin University, Western Australia, and formerly at the Centre for Labour Market Studies, University of Leicester, UK
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Contents:
1. Foundations
Andrew Herod, Susan McGrath-Champ and Al Rainnie
PART I: WORK, SPACE AND THE STATE
2. Globalisation and the State
Bob Jessop
3. Creating Markets, Contesting Markets: Labour Internationalism and the European Common Transport Policy
Peter Turnbull
PART II: WORKING SPACES
4. Working Spaces
Al Rainnie, Susan McGrath-Champ and Andrew Herod
Section 2.1 Regionalisation, Globalisation and Labour
5. Labour Markets from the Bottom Up
Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore
6. Clothing Workers after Worker States: The Consequences for Work and Labour of Outsourcing, Nearshoring and Delocalisation in Postsocialist Europe
John Pickles and Adrian Smith
7. Tele-mediated Servants and Self-servants of the Global Economy: Labour in the Era of ICT-enabled E-commerce
Matthew Zook and Michael Samers
8. Gender, Space and Labour Market Participation: The Experiences of British Pakistani Women
Robina Mohammad
9. Filipino Migration and the Spatialities of Labour Market Subordination
Philip F. Kelly
Section 2.2 Building Space
10. Competing Geographies of Welfare Capitalism and its Workers: Kohler Village and the Spatial Politics of Planned Company Towns
Kathryn J. Oberdeck
11. Work, Place and Community in Socialism and Postsocialism
Alison Stenning
12. Plastic Palm Trees and Blue Pumpkins: Synthetic Fun and Real Control in Contemporary Space
Chris Baldry
13. Dormitory Labour Regimes and the Labour Process in China: New Workers in Old Factory Forms
Ngai Pun and Chris Smith
PART III: WORKERS IN SPACE
14. Workers in Space
Al Rainnie, Andrew Herod and Susan McGrath-Champ
Section 3.1 Labour Institutions in Space and Place
15. Global Unions versus Global Capital: Or, the Complexity of Transnational Labour Relations
Ronaldo Munck and Peter Waterman
16. Methodological Nationalism and Territorial Capitalism: Mobile Labour and the Challenges to the ‘German Model’
Christian Berndt
17. European Works Councils: From the Local to the Global?
Ian Fitzgerald and John Stirling
18. The New Economic Model and Spatial Changes in Labour Relations in Post-NAFTA Mexico
Enrique de la Garza Toledo
Section 3.2 Organising in Space and Place
19. Contested Space: Union Organising in the Old Economy
Bradon Ellem
20. Contesting the New Politics of Space: Labour and Capital in the White Goods Industry in Southern Africa
Andries Bezuidenhout and Edward Webster
21. The Multi-scalarity of Trade Union Practice
Jeremy Anderson, Paula Hamilton and Jane Wills
22. Working Space and the New Labour Internationalism
Rob Lambert and Michael Gillan
23. Online Union Campaigns and the Shrinking Globe: The LabourStart Experience
Eric Lee
24. ‘Across the Great Divide’: Local and Global Trade Union Responses to Call Centre Offshoring to India
Phil Taylor and Peter Bain
PART IV: AFTERWORD
25. Workers, Economies, Geographies
Noel Castree
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2010
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520 pp
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Hardback |
978 1 84720 054 9
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£
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