Handbook of Employment and Society

Edited by Susan McGrath-Champ, Professor (Honorary) of Work and Employment Relations, Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies, The University of Sydney, Australia, Andrew Herod, Regents’ Professor, Department of Geography, University of Georgia, US and Al Rainnie, University of South Australia

’. . . 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.'

• Contents:1. FoundationsAndrew Herod, Susan McGrath-Champ and Al RainniePART I: WORK, SPACE AND THE STATE2. Globalisation and the State Bob Jessop3. Creating Markets, Contesting Markets: Labour Internationalism and the European Common Transport PolicyPeter TurnbullPART II: WORKING SPACES4. Working SpacesAl Rainnie, Susan McGrath-Champ and Andrew HerodSection 2.1 Regionalisation, Globalisation and Labour5. Labour Markets from the Bottom UpJamie Peck and Nik Theodore6. Clothing Workers after Worker States: The Consequences for Work and Labour of Outsourcing, Nearshoring and Delocalisation in Postsocialist EuropeJohn Pickles and Adrian Smith7. Tele-mediated Servants and Self-servants of the Global Economy: Labour in the Era of ICT-enabled E-commerceMatthew Zook and Michael Samers8. Gender, Space and Labour Market Participation: The Experiences of British Pakistani WomenRobina Mohammad9. Filipino Migration and the Spatialities of Labour Market SubordinationPhilip F. KellySection 2.2 Building Space10. Competing Geographies of Welfare Capitalism and its Workers: Kohler Village and the Spatial Politics of Planned Company TownsKathryn J. Oberdeck11. Work, Place and Community in Socialism and PostsocialismAlison Stenning12. Plastic Palm Trees and Blue Pumpkins: Synthetic Fun and Real Control in Contemporary SpaceChris Baldry13. Dormitory Labour Regimes and the Labour Process in China: New Workers in Old Factory FormsNgai Pun and Chris SmithPART III: WORKERS IN SPACE14. Workers in Space Al Rainnie, Andrew Herod and Susan McGrath-ChampSection 3.1 Labour Institutions in Space and Place15. Global Unions versus Global Capital: Or, the Complexity of Transnational Labour RelationsRonaldo Munck and Peter Waterman16. Methodological Nationalism and Territorial Capitalism: Mobile Labour and the Challenges to the ‘German Model’Christian Berndt17. European Works Councils: From the Local to the Global?Ian Fitzgerald and John Stirling18. The New Economic Model and Spatial Changes in Labour Relations in Post-NAFTA MexicoEnrique de la Garza ToledoSection 3.2 Organising in Space and Place19. Contested Space: Union Organising in the Old EconomyBradon Ellem20. Contesting the New Politics of Space: Labour and Capital in the White Goods Industry in Southern AfricaAndries Bezuidenhout and Edward Webster21. The Multi-scalarity of Trade Union PracticeJeremy Anderson, Paula Hamilton and Jane Wills22. Working Space and the New Labour InternationalismRob Lambert and Michael Gillan23. Online Union Campaigns and the Shrinking Globe: The LabourStart ExperienceEric Lee24. ‘Across the Great Divide’: Local and Global Trade Union Responses to Call Centre Offshoring to IndiaPhil Taylor and Peter BainPART IV: AFTERWORD25. Workers, Economies, GeographiesNoel CastreeIndex