Syllabus/achievement requirements

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1.    FUTURES OF WORK

@Anderson, B. (2010). Preemption, precaution, preparedness: Anticipatory action and future geographies. Progress in Human Geography, 34(6), 777-798. (21 pages)

@Anner, M, Pons-Vignon, N and Rani, U. (2019). For a Future of Work with Dignity: A Critique of the World Bank Developement Report The Changing Nature of Work, Global Labour Journal 10(1), 2-19 (17 pages)

@Theodore, N. (2016) Worlds of work: changing landscapes of production and the new geographies of opportunity. Geography Compass, 10: 179-189. (10 pages)

2.    GEOGRAPHIES OF LABOUR

*Davies, A. D. and Featherstone, D. (2013). “Networking Resistances: The Contested Spatialities of Transnational Social Movement Organizing” Nicholls, W., Miller, B. og Beaumont, J. (eds). Spaces of Contention: Spatialities and Social Movements. Ashgate, pp 239-260 (Chapter 11) (21 pages)

@Jonas, A. E. (2006). Pro scale: further reflections on the ‘scale debate’ in human geography. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 31(3), 399-406 (7 pages)

@Jordhus-Lier, D., Underthun, A., & Zampoukos, K. (2019). Changing workplace geographies: Restructuring warehouse employment in the Oslo region. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 51(1), 69-90. (21 pages)

@Marston, S. A. (2000). The social construction of scale. Progress in human geography, 24(2), 219-242. (23 pages)

*Martin, D.G. (2013). “Place Frames: Analysing Practice and Production of Place in Contentious Politics”. Nicholls, W., Miller, B. og Beaumont, J. (eds). Spaces of Contention: Spatialities and Social Movements. Ashgate, pp 85-99 (Chapter 4) (14 pages)

*Mezzadra, S., & Neilson, B. (2013). Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor. Duke University Press. Pages 9-25 and 61-94. (49 pages)

 3.    WORKER AGENCY

@Brookes, M. (2013). Varieties of power in transnational labor alliances: An analysis of workers’ structural, institutional, and coalitional power in the global economy. Labor Studies Journal, 38(3), 181-200. (19 pages)

@Coe, N. M., & Jordhus-Lier, D. C. (2011). Constrained agency? Re-evaluating the geographies of labour. Progress in Human Geography, 35(2), 211-233. (22 pages)

*Herod, A. (2001). Labor geographies: Workers and the landscapes of capitalism. Guilford Press, New York, pp. 13-49. (36 pages)

*Katz, C. (2004). Growing up global: Economic restructuring and children's everyday lives. Univeristy of Minnesota Press, pp. 239-260

@Kiil, M. B., & Knutsen, H. M. (2016). Agency by exit: Swedish nurses and the “Not below 24,000” movement. Geoforum, 70, 105-114. (9 pages)

4.    REPRESENTATION AT WORK

*Beckman, B. (2009). “Trade Unions and Popular Representation: Nigeria and South Africa Compared”. In O. T?rnquist, N. Webster, & K. Stokke (Eds.), Rethinking Popular Representation. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 179-195. (16 pages)

@Cella, G. P. (2012). The representation of non-standard workers. Theory and culture of collective bargaining. Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 18(2), 171-184. (13 pages)

@Gleiss, M. S. (2014). How Chinese labour NGOs legitimize their identity and voice. China Information 28(3): 362–381 (19 pages)

@Wauters, B., Mus, M., Lannoo, S., & Devos, C. (2014). Perfect match or missing link? An analysis of the representativeness of trade union representatives in Belgium. Industrial Relations Journal, 45(5), 424-442. (18 pages)

@Saward, M. (2006). The Representative Claim. Contemporary Political Theory, 5(3), 297-318. (21 pages)

5.    LABOUR REGIMES

@Jonas, A. (2009) Labour control regime, in International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, edited by A.E.G. Jonas,  R. Kitchin , and N.  Thrift. Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 59-65. (6 pages)

*Knutsen, H.M. & Hansson, E. (2010). Theoretical approaches to changing labour regimes in transition economies. In: Bergene, A.C, Endresen, S.B. & Knutsen, H.M. (eds). Missing links in labour geography. Farnham. Ashgate. 155-168. (13 pages)

@Nichols, T., Cham, S., Chou, W-C., Zhao, W, & Feng T. (2004) Factory regimes and the dismantling of labor in large manufacturing plants in China, South  Korea and Taiwan. Work, Employment Society 18: 663-685.  (22 pages)

@Smith, A. , Barbu, M.,  Campling, L.,  Harrison, J. & Richardson, B. (2018). Labor regimes, global production networks and European Union Trade policy: Labor standards and Export production in the Moldovan clothing industry. Economic Geography. 550-574. (24 pages)

6.    INTERMEDIARIES, DIGITALISATION AND THE PRECARIAT

@Jesnes, K. (2019). Employment Models of Platform Companies in Norway: A Distinctive Approach? Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, Vol 9, Special issue No 56.

@Moore S and Newsome K. (2018) Paying for Free Delivery: Dependent Self-Employment as a Measure of Precarity in Parcel Delivery. Work, Employment and Society 32: 475-492. (17 pages)

@Pongratz HJ. (2018) Of crowds and talents: discursive constructions of global online labour. New Technology, Work and Employment 33: 58-73. (15 pages)

@Tassinari A and Maccarrone V. (2019) Riders on the Storm: Workplace Solidarity among Gig Economy Couriers in Italy and the UK. Work, Employment and Society. Finnes her: http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/119689/8/WRAP-Riders-storm-workplace-solidarity-economy-couriers-Tassinari-2019.pdf (32 pages)

@Veen A, Barratt T and Goods C. (2019) Platform-Capital’s ‘App-etite’ for Control: A Labour Process Analysis of Food-Delivery Work in Australia. Work, Employment and Society

7.    GLOBAL HOMES AND INDUSTRIAL CITIZENSHIP IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION

@Castles, S. (2005). Nation and empire: hierarchies of citizenship in the new global order. International Politics, 42(2), 203-224. (21 pages)

@Jordhus-Lier, D. (2017). Claiming industrial citizenship: The struggle for domestic worker rights in Indonesia. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift-Norwegian Journal of Geography, 71(4), 243-252. (9 pages)

@Yeoh, B. S. A., Huang, S., & Gonzalez III, J. (1999). Migrant female domestic workers: Debating the economic, social and political impacts in Singapore. International Migration Review, 33(1), 114-136. (22 pages)

@Zhang, C., & Lillie, N. (2014). Industrial citizenship, cosmopolitanism and European integration. European Journal of Social Theory, 1368431014553756. (19 pages)

8.    INTERSECTIONAL WORKER STRUGGLES 

@Alberti, G., Holgate, J., & Tapia, M. (2013). Organising migrants as workers or as migrant workers? Intersectionality, trade unions and precarious work. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 24(22), 4132-4148. (16 pages)

@Cobble, D. S. (1991). Organizing the postindustrial work force: Lessons from the history of waitress unionism. ILR Review, 44(3), 419-436. (17 pages)

@Johns, R., & Vural, L. (2000). Class, geography, and the consumerist turn: UNITE and the Stop Sweatshops Campaign. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 32(7), 1193-1213. (20 pages)

@Lewis, N. M., & Mills, S. (2016). Seeking security: Gay labour migration and uneven landscapes of work. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 48(12), 2484-2503. (19 pages)

9.    GREENING WORK AND JUST TRANSITIONS

@Goods, C. (2017). Climate change and employment relations. Journal of Industrial Relations, 59(5), 670-679. (9 pages)

@Newell, P., & Mulvaney, D. (2013). The political economy of the ‘just transition’. The Geographical Journal, 179(2), 132-140. (8 pages)

@R?thzel, N., & Uzzell, D. (2011). Trade unions and climate change: The jobs versus environment dilemma. Global Environmental Change, 21(4), 1215-1223. (8 pages)

@Snell, D. (2018). ‘Just transition’? Conceptual challenges meet stark reality in a ‘transitioning’ coal region in Australia. Globalizations, 15(4), 550-564. (14 pages)

@Stevis, D., Uzzell, D., & R?thzel, N. (2018). The labour–nature relationship: varieties of labour environmentalism. Globalizations, 15(4), 439-453. (14 pages)

TOTAL = appr 850 pages
 

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