Labor (eBook)

Andrew Herod is Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Georgia.

* Table of Contents

* List of Figures

* List of Tables

* Acknowledgement

* Introduction

* Chapter 1 - A Resource Unlike Any Other

* Labor as Object

* Labor as Subject

* Summary

* Chapter 2 - Labor in Global Context

* Moving On

* Rural to urban migration

* Intra-continental migration

* Inter-continental migration

* Growing in Place

* Summary

* Chapter 3 - Globalization and Labor

* FDI's Implications for Labor

* GPNs and Labor as Object and Subject

* Waste, Global Destruction Networks, and Labor

* Summary

* Chapter 4 - Neoliberalism and Working Precariously

* Neoliberalism and Precarious Work

* Forms of Precarity and Their Present Dynamics

* Summary

* Chapter 5 - From Drudge Work to Emancipated Workers?

* Laboring in the Old Economy

* On the Swing to the Cancer in the Bush Iron Ore Mining in Western Australia

* Sweet Work? - Cocoa Plantation Workers in West Africa

* Fishy Business - Forced Labor in the Seafood Industry

* Summary

* Chapter 6 - Meet the New Economy - Same as the Old Economy?

* Laboring in the New Economy

* Chips off the Old (Economy) Block?

* Call Centers - Dark Satanic Mills of the New Economy?

* Ghost Workers of the New Economy

* Summary

* Chapter 7 - Workers Fight Back

* Workers Coming Together

* Organizing in the Age of Precarity

* Summary

* Chapter 8 - Concluding Thoughts

* Bibliography

"Superbly explicated and assisted by well-chosen case studies, Andrew Herod's analysis of the uniqueness of labor as a resource is both captivating and convincing. Wonderful work!"
--Jon Agnone, University of Washington

"In this bold and pithy text Herod reminds us that labor is a vital resource with a mind of its own. This book is an excellent introduction to the fast-changing world of work and why it matters so much."
--Jane Wills, Queen Mary, University of London

"... an accessible text for undergraduates, and while clearly driven by a geographic imagination, it should be read by all labor studies students."
--Economic Geography

"In his new book, geographer Andrew Herod brings the labor question back into the heart of understanding the global economic processes shaping the world we live in."
--Antipode

"Herod's Labor is an excellent book. It succeeds brilliantly as an introductory text, but also presents important arguments and evidence deserving a wider readership."
--Journal of Industrial Relations

"... fresh and compelling."
--Rick Halpern, University of Toronto