Geographies of production III: Making space for labour

Progress in Human Geography

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 271-284

  Coe, Neil M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

agency; economic geography; labour; migration; precarity; unions; work

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; LABOR; LABOR MARKET; LABOR MIGRATION;

EID: 84875026378     PISSN: 03091325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309132512441318     Document Type: Review

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