Bøger af Jane Wills

An important synthesis of economic geography and industrial relations work, this book marks a major contribution towards the newly emerging field of labour geography.

* 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.

This text explores radical perspectives in human geography thta revael and resist certain power relations that have constituted geographical knowledge. It reveals the connections between power, politics and geographical knowledge.

Health Studies: an Introduction is a comprehensive introduction to health and illness, approaches to healthcare, and the psychological, social and environmental factors that influence public and personal health. This thoroughly revised edition includes new chapters on geography & physiology, and increased coverage of global health issues.

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 twenty-first century.*BR**BR*This book 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.*BR**BR*It also raises the level of debate about migrant labour, encouraging us to look behind the headlines. The authors ask us to take a politically informed view of our urban labour markets and to prioritise the issue of poverty in underemployed communities.

Combines political theory with attention to political practice to explore the development of localism as a new mode of statecraft. It highlights the challenges of the state devolving itself and the importance of citizens having the freedom, incentives and institutions needed to act.