Workers' strategies to secure jobs, their uses of scale, and competing economic moralities: Rethinking the 'geography of justice'

Political Geography

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 130-139

  Gough, Jamie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Employment; Geographies of justice; Socialist strategy; Spatial scale; Workers' competition; Workers' solidarity

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL FLOW; COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EMPLOYMENT GENERATION; LABOR MARKET; LABOR SUPPLY; MORALITY; POLITICAL IDEOLOGY; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIALISM; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TERRITORIALITY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 77952879777     PISSN: 09626298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2010.02.005     Document Type: Article

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