Labor, Movement: Migration, Mobility, and Geographies of Work

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 431-443

  Kelly, Philip F ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conceptualizing mobile labor; Elite labor markets; Four dimensions of labor mobility; Gendered geographies of everyday labor mobility; Labor geography, little attention to issues of labor mobility; Labor, movement, migration, mobility, and geographies of work; Migration, juxtaposing workers of racialized identities; Politically positioned in solidarity, with marginalized workers; Temporary migrant labor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872489506     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118384497.ch27     Document Type: Chapter

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