{"product_id":"handbook-of-employment-and-society-9780857935830","title":"Handbook of Employment and Society","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e’. . . provides valuable analysis and debate. It is clearly of value to students, providing comprehensive coverage of the relevant ground, and to both students and academics familiar with the territory for whom the essays begin to point the way toward future debates, clearly highlighting the necessity of geography to fully understanding work and employment.'\u003c\/i\u003e -- Oliver Mallett, Industrial Relations Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the analytical interactions between geography, space, work and employment. Space is not simply a banal backdrop against which work and employment processes and relations operate. Rather, the specific geographical context both colours, and is coloured by, the modes and nature of work and employment taking place in that context. Moreover, these issues are magnified by the tensions between processes operating at the local and global scales. The volume is particularly timely in the light of the recent credit crisis.'\u003c\/i\u003e -- Philip McCann, University of Groningen, The Netherlands\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'This \u003c\/i\u003eHandbook\u003ci\u003e represents a major milestone in the revitalization of scholarship on work and employment. It demonstrates that human geography can - indeed, must - be integrated into labor studies and industrial relations. Our present era may be characterised as global capitalism, but \"working space\" is a social (and often highly contested) construct and people live and work in a particular place. To drive these points home, the editors weave together contributions highlighting the experience of workers in a wide variety of locations. The result is a volume rich in conceptual and practical insights; it deserves a wide audience.'\u003c\/i\u003e -- Charles J. Whalen, Utica College and Cornell University, US\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'This major edited volume from some of the most eminent scholars writing on employment and society is to be welcomed. . . The reader is rewarded with an invaluable volume of excellent work from original empirical research.'\u003c\/i\u003e -- Jane Holgate, Leeds University, UK in Labor Studies Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:  1. Foundations Andrew Herod, Susan McGrath-Champ and Al Rainnie  PART I: WORK, SPACE AND THE STATE 2. Globalisation and the State \t 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  Index","brand":"Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406335484247,"sku":"9780857935830","price":51.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780857935830.jpg?v=1730495437","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/handbook-of-employment-and-society-9780857935830","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}