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Work-Place - The Social Regulation of Labor Markets (Paperback)
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Work-Place - The Social Regulation of Labor Markets (Paperback)
Series: Perspectives on Economic Change
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Challenging the prevailing idea that labor markets are governed by
universal economic processes, this significant work argues instead
that labor markets develop in tandem with social and political
institutions, and thus function in locally specific ways. Focusing
on the complex social processes that lie at the heart of the labor
market--those of labor control, labor reproduction, and labor
regulation--the author develops an innovative political economy
approach that is sensitive to the ways these processes are locally
constituted. He also demonstrates how the geographically uneven
development of labor markets is currently associated with a
deterioration of working conditions, the trading away of workers'
rights and benefits, and a downward spiral in labor standards.
Drawing on a critical reading of segmentation and regulation
theory, which calls for a simultaneous analysis of economic
processes and social institutions, the first part of the book
establishes a theoretical case for spatializing labor market
theory. The author shows how labor market processes are transformed
by the way they operate through space and in place, drawing
attention to systemic spatial variability in their structures,
dynamics, and modes of social regulation. Presenting illuminating
empirical case studies, the second part of the book illustrates
some of the ways in which the author's approach to labor market
theory can be put to work. Chapters take an in-depth look at skill
formation in the context of labor market flexibility, industrial
homework and labor market restructuring, workfarist tendencies in
labor regulation, and neoliberalism and the geographic
reconstitution of labor relations.
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