Handbook of employment and society : working space

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Author:

McGrath-Champ, Susan.

ISBN:

9780857935830

Publication Information:

Cheltenham ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar, 2011.

Physical Description:

x, 507 p. : ill., maps ; 25cm.

General 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.

Contents:

Foundations / Andrew Herod, Susan McGrath-Champ and Al Rainnie -- Globalisation and the state / Bob Jessop -- Creating markets, contesting markets : labour internationalism and the European Common Transport Policy / Peter Turnbull -- Working spaces / Al Rainnie, Susan McGrath-Champ and Andrew Herod -- Labour markets from the bottom up / Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore -- Clothing workers after worker states : the consequences for work and labour of outsourcing, nearshoring and delocalisation in postsocialist Europe / John Pickles and Adrian Smith -- Tele-mediated servants and self-servants of the global economy : labour in the era of ICT-enabled e-commerce / Matthew Zook and Michael Samers -- Gender, space and labour market participation : the experiences of British Pakistani women / Robina Mohammad -- Filipino migration and the spatialities of labour market subordination / Philip F. Kelly -- Competing geographies of welfare capitalism and its workers : Kohler Village and the spatial politics of planned company towns / Kathryn J. Oberdeck -- Work, place and community in socialism and postsocialism / Alison Stenning -- Plastic palm trees and blue pumpkins : synthetic fun and real control in contemporary workspace / Chris Baldry -- Dormitory labour regimes and the labour process in China : new workers in old factory forms / Ngai Pun and Chris Smith -- Workers in space / Al Rainnie, Andrew Herod and Susan McGrath-Champ -- Global unions versus global capital : or, the complexity of transnational labour relations / Ronaldo Munck and Peter Waterman -- Methodological nationalism and territorial capitalism : mobile labour and the challenges to the 'German Model' / Christian Berndt -- European Works Councils : from the local to the global? / Ian Fitzgerald and John Stirling -- The new economic model and spatial changes in labour relations in post-NAFTA Mexico / Enrique de la Garza Toledo -- Contested space : union organising in the old economy / Bradon Ellem -- Contesting the new politics of space : labour and capital in the white goods industry in southern Africa / Andries Bezuidenhout and Edward Webster -- The multi-scalarity of trade union practice / Jeremy Anderson, Paula Hamilton and Jane Wills -- Working space and the New Labour Internationalism / Rob Lambert and Michael Gillan -- Online union campaigns and the shrinking globe : the LabourStart experience / Eric Lee -- 'Across the great divide' : local and global trade union responses to call centre offshoring to India / Phil Taylor and Peter Bain -- Workers, economies, geographies / Noel Castree.

Abstract:

Drawing on the work of major researchers from around the world, this important book represents a timely and required engagement on the part of scholars of work and employment with developments in spatial theorising.

Subject Term:

Organizational sociology.

Organizational behavior.

Work environment.

Work -- Social aspects.

Added Author:

McGrath-Champ, Susan.

Herod, Andrew, 1964-

Rainnie, Al.

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This Handbook deepens and extends the engagement between research concerned with work and employment and labour geography. It links fundamental concepts concerning the politics of place that human geographers have developed in recent years with the world of work. Internationally recognised 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 theorising and understanding how social actors' lives are deeply geographically structured. They explore what space and geography mean for work and employment, examine workers as objects in socio-spatial relations and concentrate on workers' accommodation of, and resistance to, the new geographies of capitalism in the global economy. Advanced students, postgraduates and scholars in sociology, geography, business studies, industrial/labour relations and employment studies will find this Handbook of immense value.