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Labor geographies : workers and the landscapes of capitalism / Andrew Herod

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Perspectives on economic changePublication details: New York : Guilford Press, 2001Description: xvi, 352 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 1572306858
Other title:
  • Workers and the landscapes of capitalism
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331./8
LOC classification:
  • HD 6490 H559l 2001
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: CHAPTER 1. Introduction: Labor and Landscapes -- CHAPTER 2. Toward a Labor Geography -- CHAPTER 3. Challenging the Global Locally: -- Labor in a Postindustrial Global City -- CHAPTER 4. Spatial Sabotage: Containerization, Union Work -- Rules, and the Geography of Waterfront Work -- CHAPTER 5. Scales of Struggle: Labor's Rescaling of Contract -- Bargaining in the U.S. East Coast -- Longshoring Industry -- CHAPTER 6. Labor as an Agent of Globalization -- and as a Global Agent -- CHAPTER 7. Engineering Spaces of Anti-Communism: -- Connecting Cold War Global Strategy -- to Local Everyday Life -- CHAPTER 8. Thinking Locally, Acting Globally?: -- The Practice of International Labor Solidarity -- and the Geography of the Global Economy -- CHAPTER 9. International Labor Union Activity -- and the Landscapes of Transition -- in Central and Eastern Europe -- CHAPTER 10. Labor Geographies: A Conclusion -- and a New Beginning? -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HD 6490 H559l 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000004456

Machine generated contents note: CHAPTER 1. Introduction: Labor and Landscapes -- CHAPTER 2. Toward a Labor Geography -- CHAPTER 3. Challenging the Global Locally: -- Labor in a Postindustrial Global City -- CHAPTER 4. Spatial Sabotage: Containerization, Union Work -- Rules, and the Geography of Waterfront Work -- CHAPTER 5. Scales of Struggle: Labor's Rescaling of Contract -- Bargaining in the U.S. East Coast -- Longshoring Industry -- CHAPTER 6. Labor as an Agent of Globalization -- and as a Global Agent -- CHAPTER 7. Engineering Spaces of Anti-Communism: -- Connecting Cold War Global Strategy -- to Local Everyday Life -- CHAPTER 8. Thinking Locally, Acting Globally?: -- The Practice of International Labor Solidarity -- and the Geography of the Global Economy -- CHAPTER 9. International Labor Union Activity -- and the Landscapes of Transition -- in Central and Eastern Europe -- CHAPTER 10. Labor Geographies: A Conclusion -- and a New Beginning? -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR.

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