* = the article is in a compendium
@ = the article is available online
NB! Students who do not have a BA from UiO are recommended to read the following before beginning with the course material:
Castree, N. et al. 2004. Spaces of work. Global capitalism and geographies of labour. SAGE, London.
Pensum:
*Amin, S. 1997. Capitalism in the age of globalization. Zed, London. 1-11. 11p.
*Arrighi, G. & J.S. Saul. 1973. "Class formation and economic development in Tropical Africa." (1968). Bernstein, H. (Ed.). Underdevelopment and development. Penguin, Harmondsworth. 14p.
Beerepoot, N. 2010. Globalization and the Reworking of Labour Market Segmentation in the Philippines. In A.C. Bergene, S.B. Endresen and H.M. Knutsen (Eds). Missing Links in Labour Geography. Ashgate, Farnham. 199-210. 11p.
Bergene, A.C., S.B. Endresen and H.M. Knutsen (Eds). 2010. Approaches to the Social and Spatial Agency of Labour. In A.C. Bergene, S.B. Endresen and H.M. Knutsen (Eds). Missing Links in Labour Geography. Ashgate, Farnham. 227-240. 13p.
@Bergene, A.C. 2010. Preaching in the Desert or Looking at the Stars? A comparative study of trade union strategies in the auto, textile and garment, and maritime industries. Dissertation submitted for the PhD degree in Human Geography. Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo. Part II, 3: Capitalism and class. 4: The geography of the class struggle. 7: Class Politics. (45-72, 99-119). 47p.
*Boltanski, L. and E. Chiapello. 2005. The new spirit of capitalism. Verso, London. Part II, Chapter 4: Dismantling the world of work. 217-254. 37p.
*Braverman, H. 1974. Labor and Monopoly Capital. The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century. Reprinted in 1998 by Monthly Review Press, New York. 59-85. 26p.
@Burawoy, M. et al. 2000. Involution and destitution in capitalist Russia. Ethnography, Vol. 1, No. 1. 43-65. 22p. Tilgjengelig p? internett
*Carswell, G. & G. De Neve. 2010. Labouring for global markets: Conceptualising labour agency in Global Production Networks. Paper presented at RGS-IBG, September. 1-27. 27p. NB! This text will be distributed during the course
Coe, N.M. and D. C. Jordhus-Lier. 2010. Re-embedding the Agency of Labour. In A.C. Bergene, S.B. Endresen and H.M. Knutsen (Eds). Missing Links in Labour Geography. Ashgate, Farnham. 29-40. 11p.
Endresen, S.B. 2010. ‘We Order 20 Bodies’. Labour Hire and Alienation. In A.C. Bergene, S.B. Endresen and H.M. Knutsen (Eds). Missing Links in Labour Geography. Ashgate, Farnham. 211-224. 13p.
*Gibson-Graham, J.K. 1996. The end of capitalism (as we knew it). A feminist critique of Political Economy. Blackwell, Cambridge, Mass. Chapter 11: Waiting for the Revolution. 14 p.
@Hardt, M. & A. Negri. 2000. Empire. Harvard University Press, Cambridge. 3-1, 114-136, 183-204, 221-236. 59p. Tilgjengelig p? internett
*Harvey, D. 2003. The new imperialism. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 137-182. 45p.
Herod, A. Labour Geography: Where Have We Been? Where Should We Go? In A.C. Bergene, S.B. Endresen and H.M. Knutsen (Eds). Missing Links in Labour Geography. Ashgate, Farnham. 15-28. 13p.
Jauch, H. and A. C. Bergene. 2010. Between Revolutionary Rhetoric and Class Compromise: Trade Unions and the State. In A.C. Bergene, S.B. Endresen and H.M. Knutsen (Eds). Missing Links in Labour Geography. Ashgate, Farnham. 127-139. 12p.
*Jonas, A.E.G. 1996. Local Labour Control Regmes: Uneven Development and the Social Regulation of Production. Regional Studies, Vol. 30.4, 323-338. 15p.
*Kelly, P. F. 2002. Spaces of labour control: comparative perspectives from Southeast Asia. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 27, No. 4. 395-411. 16p.
Knutsen, H.M and E. Hansson. 2010. Theoretical Approaches to Changing Labour Regimes in Transition Economies. In A.C. Bergene, S.B. Endresen and H.M. Knutsen (Eds). Missing Links in Labour Geography. Ashgate, Farnham. 155-168. 13p.
@Lenin, V.I. 1916. Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism. Tilgjengelig p? internett 9p.
*Lipietz, A. 1982. Towards global Fordism? New Left Review, Vol. 32. 33-47. 14p.
@Luxemburg, R. 1913. The reproduction of capital and its social setting. Tilgjengelig p? internett 15p.
Magnusson, O.A., H. M. Knutsen and S. B. Endresen. 2010. Between Coercion and Consent: Understanding Post-Apartheid Workplace Regimes. In A.C. Bergene, S.B. Endresen and H.M. Knutsen (Eds). Missing Links in Labour Geography. Ashgate, Farnham. 169-181. 12p.
*Marx, K. & F. Engels. 2000. Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848) and Alienated Labor (1844). in Timmons Roberts, J. & A. Hite (Eds). From Modernization to Globalization. Perspectives on Development and Social Change. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford. 9p.
@McDowell, L. 2006. Reconfigurations of Gender and Class Relations: Class Differences, Class Condescension and the Changing Place of Class Relations. Antipode, Vol. 38, No 4. 24p. Tilgjengelig p? internett
*Moody, K. 1997. Workers in a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy. Verso, London. 41-85. 44p.
*Polanyi, K. 2001. The Great Transformation. The political and economic origins of our time. Beacon Press, Boston. 71-80, 171-186. 24p.
@ Rogaly, B. 2008. Intensification of workplace regimes in British horticulture: the role of migrant workers. Population, Space and Place, Volume 14, Issue 6, pages 497–510, November/December. 13p. Tilgjengelig p? internett
*Ruccio, D. F. 2011. Development and Globalization. A Marxian class analysis. Routledge, London. Chapter 13, Fordism on a world scale: International dimensions of regulation. 248-317. 22p.
*Scheld, S. The ‘China challenge’: the global dimensions of activism and the informal economy in Dakar. In: I. Lindell. (Ed.) Africa’s informal workers. Collective agency, alliances and transnational organizing in urban Africa. The Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala. 153-168. 15p.
*Silver, B.J. & G. Arrighi. 2005. Workers North and South. In L. Amoore (Ed.) The Global Resistance Reader. Routledge, London. 273-288.15p.
*de Soto, H. 2003. The mystery of capital: Why capitalism triumphs in the West and fails everywhere else. Basic Books, New York. 207-228. 22p.
Tufts, S. 2010. Schumpeterian Unionism and ‘High-Road’ Dreams in Toronto’s Hospitality Sector. In A.C. Bergene, S.B. Endresen and H.M. Knutsen (Eds). Missing Links in Labour Geography. Ashgate, Farnham. 83-97. 14p.
*Webster, E. et al. 2008. Grounding Globalization. Labour in the age of insecurity. Blackwell, Malden. 51-77. 26p.
*Wetlesen, A. 2010. Legal empowerment of workers in the informal economy: the case of the construction industry in Tamil Nadu, India. Journal of Asian Public PolicyVol. 3, No. 3, November 2010, 294–308. 14p.
*Wills, J. & A. Hale. 2005. Threads of Labour in the Global Garment Industry. In A. Hale. & J. Wills (Eds). Threads of Labour: garment industry supply chains from the workers' perspectives. Blackwell, Oxford. 1-15.15p.
Totalt 706s.
* = in compendium. Compendium will be available at Kopiutsalget at the bookstore Gnist Akademika at Blindern. Please bring your student card.
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To download the articles from computers outside the UiO network it is necessary to connect to the UiO network by VPN client. Some ejournal databases do not facilitate a direct link to the PDF-file. In such cases the link leads to the issue-index or the journal from where the correct article can be located and downloaded. Available curriculum articles on the internet are an advantage in the sense that required reading will be available to the students sooner than compendiums, and the students may choose to read the text on the screen. Students pay for print-outs if exceeding their print quota, but this is also cheaper than printed compendium per page.