Labour's lines of flight: Rethinking the vulnerabilities of transnational capital

Geoforum

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 959-968

  Anderson, Jeremy ^a  

^a International Transport Workers' Federation   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attrition; Deleuze and Guattari; Leverage; Lines of flight; Scale; SEIU; TGWU; Trade unions; Transnational comprehensive campaigns

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL; LABOR STANDARD; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOPOLOGY; TRADE UNION; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 70450277672     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2009.08.002     Document Type: Article

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