Noel Castree, Neil Coe, Kevin Ward, Mike Samers

Spaces of Work (eBook, ePUB)

Global Capitalism and Geographies of Labour

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an examination of the role of labour in the modern world. The authors assess the present condition and future prospects for workers through the geographies of place, space and scale, and in conjunction with more commonly studied components of the globalisation such as production, trade and finance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications
• Seitenzahl: 303
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781446224199
• Artikelnr.: 41004809

Autorenporträt

Noel Castree is a Professor of Society & Environment at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). He has applied Marxist political economy to understand global environmental change and policy. His recent research explores how different forms of expertise jostle to gain traction in public understandings of the Earth and its future trajectories. He is the managing editor of the peer review journal Progress in Human Geography, co-editor of the book David Harvey: A Critical Reader (2007) and author of Making Sense of Nature (2014). His recent articles have appeared in Anthropocene Review, Environmental Humanities and Ambio, among others.

Inhaltsangabe

Orientations
PART ONE: GEOGRAPHIES OF LABOUR
The Social Relations of Labour
Working in a Capitalist World
Placing Labour in an Interdependent World
Spacing and Scaling Labour
PART TWO: LABOUR IN PLACE
Re/placing Labour
Varieties of Localism
PART THREE: RE-SCALING LABOUR
Dis/placing Labour
Up-scaling Worker Action
PART FOUR: WORKERS, GEOGRAPHICAL SCALE AND IN/JUSTICE
The Geographical Dilemmas of Justice