Labouring geography: Negotiating scales, strategies and future directions

Geoforum

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 945-948

  Tufts, Steven ^a   Savage, Lydia ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency; Labour geography; Organizing strategy; Scale

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; FUTURE PROSPECT; LABOR; LITERATURE REVIEW; NEGOTIATION PROCESS; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

EID: 70450239589     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2009.10.006     Document Type: Article

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