‘The Production of Space’, in: Frans Jacobi, Imagine, Space Poetry, Copenhagen, 1996, unpaginated.

The Production of Space

1. Interaction. The interactions learners have with each other build interpersonal skills, such as listening, politely interrupting, expressing ideas, raising questions, disagreeing, paraphrasing, negotiating, and asking for help. 2. Interdependence. Learners must depend on one another to accomplish a common objective. Each group member has specific tasks to complete, and successful completion of each member’s tasks results in attaining the overall group objective.

将“Cooperative Learning”融入课堂——浅谈英语素质教育

What makes organizations so similar? We contend that the engine of rationalization and bureaucratization has moved from the competitive marketplace to the state and the professions. Once a set of organizations emerges as a field, a paradox arises: rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them. We describe three isomorphic processes-coercive, mimetic, and normative—leading to this outcome. We then specify hypotheses about the impact of resource centralization and dependency, goal ambiguity and technical uncertainty, and professionalization and structuration on isomorphic change. Finally, we suggest implications for theories of organizations and social change.

The iron cage revisited: Institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields (Chinese Translation)

Culture and Imperialism

Normal accidents. Living with high-risk technologies

Commodity chains that are global in extent have increasingly come to be seen as the defining element of the contemporary globalized world economy. Since the 1990s a body of theory — evolving from global commodity chain analysis to global value chain analysis to global production network analysis — has focused upon understanding how such commodity chains function. However, despite providing many important insights, these bodies of literature have generally suffered from a major deficiency in that they have failed to consider labour as an active agent capable of shaping such chains' structure and geographical organization. Here, then, we present a case for locating more centrally labour, in production network analysis.

Review and Positions: Global Production Networks and Labour:

Theorists of work and employment (W&E) practices should more seriously engage with literatures concerning how space is constitutive of social praxis. Rather than simply serving as a stage upon which social life is played out or being merely a reflection of social relations, the construction of the economic landscape in particular ways is fundamental to how social systems function. Struggles over space are a central dynamic in W&E practices as different actors engage with the economic landscape to ensure their 'geographical vision' is emplaced in that landscape. Furthermore, conflicts over W&E practices frequently revolve around the spatial (re)scaling of such practices (as when collective bargaining is 'decentralized'). Consequently, an important key to better theorizing W&E practices is understanding how the various spatial scales at which these operate are socially constructed and discursively represented.

Working space: why incorporating the geographical is central to theorizing work and employment practices

Contents: 1. Foundations Andrew Herod, Susan McGrath-Champ and Al Rainnie PART I: WORK, SPACE AND THE STATE 2. Globalisation and the State Bob Jessop 3. Creating Markets, Contesting Markets: Labour Internationalism and the European Common Transport Policy Peter Turnbull PART II: WORKING SPACES 4. Working Spaces Al Rainnie, Susan McGrath-Champ and Andrew Herod Section 2.1 Regionalisation, Globalisation and Labour 5. Labour Markets from the Bottom Up Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore 6. Clothing Workers after Worker States: The Consequences for Work and Labour of Outsourcing, Nearshoring and Delocalisation in Postsocialist Europe John Pickles and Adrian Smith 7. Tele-mediated Servants and Self-servants of the Global Economy: Labour in the Era of ICT-enabled E-commerce Matthew Zook and Michael Samers 8. Gender, Space and Labour Market Participation: The Experiences of British Pakistani Women Robina Mohammad 9. Filipino Migration and the Spatialities of Labour Market Subordination Philip F. Kelly Section 2.2 Building Space 10. Competing Geographies of Welfare Capitalism and its Workers: Kohler Village and the Spatial Politics of Planned Company Towns Kathryn J. Oberdeck 11. Work, Place and Community in Socialism and Postsocialism Alison Stenning 12. Plastic Palm Trees and Blue Pumpkins: Synthetic Fun and Real Control in Contemporary Space Chris Baldry 13. Dormitory Labour Regimes and the Labour Process in China: New Workers in Old Factory Forms Ngai Pun and Chris Smith PART III: WORKERS IN SPACE 14. Workers in Space Al Rainnie, Andrew Herod and Susan McGrath-Champ Section 3.1 Labour Institutions in Space and Place 15. Global Unions versus Global Capital: Or, the Complexity of Transnational Labour Relations Ronaldo Munck and Peter Waterman 16. Methodological Nationalism and Territorial Capitalism: Mobile Labour and the Challenges to the 'German Model' Christian Berndt 17. European Works Councils: From the Local to the Global? Ian Fitzgerald and John Stirling 18. The New Economic Model and Spatial Changes in Labour Relations in Post-NAFTA Mexico Enrique de la Garza Toledo Section 3.2 Organising in Space and Place 19. Contested Space: Union Organising in the Old Economy Bradon Ellem 20. Contesting the New Politics of Space: Labour and Capital in the White Goods Industry in Southern Africa Andries Bezuidenhout and Edward Webster 21. The Multi-scalarity of Trade Union Practice Jeremy Anderson, Paula Hamilton and Jane Wills 22. Working Space and the New Labour Internationalism Rob Lambert and Michael Gillan 23. Online Union Campaigns and the Shrinking Globe: The LabourStart Experience Eric Lee 24. 'Across the Great Divide': Local and Global Trade Union Responses to Call Centre Offshoring to India Phil Taylor and Peter Bain PART IV: AFTERWORD 25. Workers, Economies, Geographies Noel Castree Index

Handbook of Employment and Society: Working Space

Handbook of Employment and Society

Australian public school teachers work some of the longest weekly hours among Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries, particularly in the state of New South Wales where av...

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Review and Positions: Global Production Networks and Labour:

Working space: why incorporating the geographical is central to theorizing work and employment practices

Handbook of Employment and Society: Working Space

Handbook of Employment and Society

Intensification of teachers’ work under devolution: A ‘tsunami’ of paperwork: