'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.'
'This Handbook 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.'
. . . 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.'—Oliver Mallett, Industrial Relations Journal
'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.'—Philip McCann, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
'This Handbook 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.'—Charles J. Whalen, Utica College and Cornell University, US
'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.'—Jane Holgate, Leeds University, UK in Labor Studies Journal
'The book is exemplary. . . [The editors'] three introductions are. . . a wonderful summary of research and debates. . . [and the book as a whole] should expand the perceptions of the naive, transform the ideas of the sceptics and provide a useful summary for the believers. . . This book will enlighten and elucidate.'—Janis Bailey, Griffith University, Australia in Journal of Industrial Relations
