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Spaces of Work
Global Capitalism and Geographies of Labour
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ISBN-13:
9780761972174
Veröffentl:
2003
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
11.11.2003
Seiten:
324
Autor:
Kevin Ward
Gewicht:
494 g
Format:
234x156x18 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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.
OrientationsPART ONE: GEOGRAPHIES OF LABOURThe Social Relations of Labour Working in a Capitalist WorldPlacing Labour in an Interdependent WorldSpacing and Scaling LabourPART TWO: LABOUR IN PLACERe/placing LabourVarieties of LocalismPART THREE: RE-SCALING LABOURDis/placing LabourUp-scaling Worker ActionPART FOUR: WORKERS, GEOGRAPHICAL SCALE AND IN/JUSTICEThe Geographical Dilemmas of Justice
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.