Places of Work, Scales of Organising: A Review of Labour Geography Export

@article{citeulike:1458468, abstract = {Abstract Labour has for a long time been an important concept in economic geography, but more often as a cost that influences investment decisions than as a social force in its own right. Recently, however, some geographers have begun putting the politics of labour at the forefront of the analysis. Labour geography can be understood as a discernible strand of research which, throughout the last decade or so, has begun to emerge from a wider Anglo-American Marxist-inspired geography tradition. In this article, I will critically review this emerging literature, which represents a fresh approach to the recent changes in the world of work and to the close relationships between workers, firms, the state and the wider community. Particularly interesting - from a geographical point of view - are the strategies of organised labour in creating new scales of organising, and in rethinking old ones.}, author = {Lier, David C.}, citeulike-article-id = {1458468}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1749-8198.2007.00047.x}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8198.2007.00047.x}, doi = {10.1111/j.1749-8198.2007.00047.x}, journal = {Geography Compass}, keywords = {capital, geography, labour, relationships, work}, number = {4}, pages = {814--833}, posted-at = {2007-07-16 09:05:41}, priority = {2}, title = {Places of Work, Scales of Organising: A Review of Labour Geography}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8198.2007.00047.x}, volume = {1}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1458468 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1458468 N2 - Abstract Labour has for a long time been an important concept in economic geography, but more often as a cost that influences investment decisions than as a social force in its own right. Recently, however, some geographers have begun putting the politics of labour at the forefront of the analysis. Labour geography can be understood as a discernible strand of research which, throughout the last decade or so, has begun to emerge from a wider Anglo-American Marxist-inspired geography tradition. In this article, I will critically review this emerging literature, which represents a fresh approach to the recent changes in the world of work and to the close relationships between workers, firms, the state and the wider community. Particularly interesting - from a geographical point of view - are the strategies of organised labour in creating new scales of organising, and in rethinking old ones. IS - 4 JF - Geography Compass EP - 833 TI - Places of Work, Scales of Organising: A Review of Labour Geography VL - 1 SP - 814 KW - capital KW - geography KW - labour KW - relationships KW - work AU - Lier, David PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8198.2007.00047.x ER -