Missing Links in Labour Geography.

Missing Links in Labour Geography.

Addressing a number of 'missing links' in the analysis of labour and its geographies, this volume examines how theoretical perspectives on both labour and the organizations of the labour movement can be refined. Issues of agency, power and collective mobilizations are examined via case stu...

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Main Author: Bergene, Ann Cecilie
Other Authors: Endresen, Sylvi B., Knutsen, Hege Merete
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham : Ashgate Pub., 2010.
Series:Dynamics of economic space.
Subjects:
Human geography.
Economic geography.
Labor movement.
Labor unions.
trade unions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Economic geography
Human geography
Labor movement
Labor unions
Kulturgeografi.
Ekonomisk geografi.
Arbetsmarknad.
Fackföreningar.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Part I Introduction; 1 Re-engaging with Agency in Labour Geography; 2 Labour Geography: Where Have We Been? Where Should We Go?; 3 Re-embedding the Agency of Labour; Part II The Agency of Unions; 4 The Entangled Geographies of Trans-national Labour Solidarity; 5 Exploring the Grassroots' Perspective on Labour Internationalisms; 6 Navigating a Chaotic Consciousness in the Trade Union Movement; 7 Schumpeterian Unionism and 'High-Road' Dreams in Toronto's Hospitality Sector.
  • 8 Trade Unions as Learning Organizations: The Challenge of Attracting Temporary Staff9 Union Power and the FormalInformal Divide; Part III Politics of Labour; 10 Between Revolutionary Rhetoric and Class Compromise: Trade Unions and the State; 11 The Constitutive Inside: Contingency, Hegemony, and Labour's Spatial Fix; 12 Theoretical Approaches to Changing Labour Regimes in Transition Economies; 13 Between Coercion and Consent: Understanding Post-Apartheid Workplace Regimes; Part.

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