Union Retreat and the Regions: The Shrinking Landscape of Organised Labour (Regions and Cities)

Since the beginning of the 1980s, British trade unions have experienced a dramatic retreat, marked by rapidly falling membership and declining industrial power. The authors examine the regional dimensions of this retreat of organised labour, paying particular attention to: The resilience of the unions' historical heartland areas. The impact of economic restructuring on local union traditions. The shrinking landscape of industrial militancy. The geographical decentralization of the new industrial relations. The link between these factors and the more general debate on regional development and regional labour markets. An important synthesis of economic geography and industrial relations work, this book marks a major contribution towards the newly emerging field of labour geography

Wills, Jane

Martin, Ron

Sunley, Peter

Reference

Routledge

Health Promotion: Foundations for Practice

Naidoo, Jennie

Bailliere Tindall

Global Cities At Work: New Migrant Divisions of Labour

This book is about the people who always get taken for granted. The people who clean our offices and trains, care for our elders and change the sheets on the bed. Global Cities at Work draws on testimony collected from more than 800 foreign-born workers employed in low-paid jobs in London during the early years of the new century. Global Cities at Work breaks new ground in linking London's new migrant division of labour to the twin processes of subcontracting and increased international migration that have been central to contemporary processes of globalisation. Global Cities at Work raises the level of debate about migrant labour, encouraging policy-makers, journalists and social scientists to look behind the headlines. The book calls us to take a politically-informed geographical view of our urban labour markets and to prioritise the issue of working poverty and its implications for both unemployment and community cohesion.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Pluto Press

Herbert, Joanna

McIlwaine, Cathy

Datta, Kavita

Evans, Yara

June, Jon

Interviews and narratives of the daily trials, difficulties, sacrifices, and small joys of four women who survived the Japanese internment camps in the Phillipines are accompanied by rare photographs.

Interrupted Lives: Four Women's Stories of Internment During WWII in the Philippines

Biographies & Memoirs

Sams, Margaret

Jansen, Sascha Jean

Kerns Lewis, Karen

Community & Culture

Gateways Books Tapes

This new edition of a very successful textbook provides an up-to-date, broad and authoritative introduction to studying health. With chapters including biology, epidemiology, anthropology, politics and psychology, it is the only book to explore all the major disciplines and highlight how they can contribute to our understanding of health in one single volume. Comprehensive, accessible and written by leading experts in the different fields, this is the introductory text for all students of health studies.

Health Studies: An Introduction

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Bloomsbury Academic

Dissident Geographies

Dissident Geographies is an accessible and lively exploration of radical perspectives in human geography. The perspectives examined in the book reveal and resist certain power relations that have constituted geographical knowledge. The book has two main aims. First, rather than reify 'the' geographical tradition, Dissident Geographies introduces a number of geographical traditions that challenge and destabilize what counts as geographical knowledge. Second, the book shows how the production of geographical knowledge is tied to politics and struggles outside as well as within the academy. In each chapter, case studies illustrate the spatiality of political practice and the politics of geographical thought. In this way Dissident Geographies reveals the connections between power, politics and geographical knowledge.

Dissident Geographies: An Introduction to Radical Ideas and Practice

Blunt, Alison

Travel

Since the beginning of the 1980s, British trade unions have experienced a dramatic retreat, marked by rapidly falling membership and declining industrial power. The authors examine the regional dimensions of this retreat of organised labour, paying particular attention to: The resilience of the unions' historical heartland areas. The impact of economic restructuring on local union traditions. The shrinking landscape of industrial militancy. The geographical decentralization of the new industrial relations. The link between these factors and the more general debate on regional development and regional labour markets. An important synthesis of economic geography and industrial relations work, this book marks a major contribution towards the newly emerging field of labour geography

Threads of Labour presents new empirical research by anetwork of garment workers' support organizations and makes senseof global supply chains from the bottom up. Presents new empirical research by a network of garmentworkers' support organizations in ten different locations in Asia,Europe and Mexico.Creates a blueprint for conducting worker-orientated actionresearch in order to better understand and resist the negativeimpact of globalization on labour.Ensures that workers' voices reach those who are already tryingto reconfigure global capitalism in more humane directions.Explores the ways in which workers might begin to develop newforms of organization that are more suited to securing gains in theglobal garment industry.Bridges the gap between activist and academic research,improving the conversation between these two groups.

Threads of Labour: Garment Industry Supply Chains from the Workers' Perspective (Antipode Book Series)

Business & Money

Hale, Angela

Business Culture

Wiley/Blackwell

Threads of Labour presents new empirical research by a network of garment workers' support organizations and makes sense of global supply chains from the bottom up.  Presents new empirical research by a network of garment workers' support organizations in ten different locations in Asia, Europe and Mexico. Creates a blueprint for conducting worker-orientated action research in order to better understand and resist the negative impact of globalization on labour. Ensures that workers' voices reach those who are already trying to reconfigure global capitalism in more humane directions. Explores the ways in which workers might begin to develop new forms of organization that are more suited to securing gains in the global garment industry. Bridges the gap between activist and academic research, improving the conversation between these two groups.

Threads of Labour: Garment Industry Supply Chains from the Workers' Perspective

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