Globalization Lived Locally

A Labour Geography Perspective
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-19-946362-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 147 mm x 221 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

The various meta-narratives of globalization project hyper-mobile capital as the leading factor for global economic integration, ignoring the active role that labour plays in the very process of capital expansion. This book debunks myths concerned with globalization, employing a labour geography approach that focuses on how workers actively participate in differentiated geographies of capitalism.

The geographic perspective sheds light on local variability and uneven development in labour market, helping chart the complex landscapes in which contemporary workers live, work, and struggle. Through four in-depth empirical case studies set in Kerala, where the labour scenario has dramatically changed over the second half of twentieth century, this book constructs a collage of trends in labour market in an analysis that departs from economic orthodoxy and borrows from sociological, anthropological, and partly ethnographic approaches to highlight the role played by seemingly unlikely actors in the process of globalization.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- List of Tables and Figures

- List of Abbreviations

- Acknowledgements

- Prologue

- I. Contemporary Globalization, Spatiality of Work, and Labour Geography

- II. Kerala in Focus

- III. A Case of an Apparel Park

- IV. A Case of an Electronics Firm and the Involvement of the Church

- V. A Case of a Food Processing Firm: Issues of Gender and Space

- VI. A Case of Cochin Port: Privatization of Ports and Workers Spatial-Fix

- VII. Globalization Lived Locally: A Concluding Note

- References

- Index

- About the Author

Über Autor(innen)

Neethi P. is Faculty, Azim Premji University, Bangalore