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International Movements and Crises in Resource Oriented Companies: The Case of Inco in the Nickel Sector
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The movement of large multinational firms into the Third World has attracted the attention of scholars interested in locational strategies as mentioned in this paper, examining a case study of one major firm (INCO).Abstract:
The movement of large multinational firms into the Third World has attracted the attention of scholars interested in locational strategies. This paper examines a case study of one major firm (INCO)...read more
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“The War in the Woods”: Post-Fordist Restructuring, Globalization, and the Contested Remapping of British Columbia's Forest Economy
TL;DR: Resource peripheries that are geographically remote from "core economies" are also peripheral to contemporary theorizing in economic geography, and require higher profile within economic geography's research agenda as discussed by the authors. But the restructuring qua remapping of resource peripheries is collectively shaped by institutional forces unleashed by post-Fordism and globalization that are fundamentally different from the restructuring of cores.
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"We Have to Protect the Investors": 'Development' & Canadian Mining Companies in Guatemala
Catherine Nolin,Jacqui Stephens +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that large-scale resource development by Canadian mining companies and their Guatemalan subsidiaries on Maya traditional territories, lands to which they have limited rights, is negatively affecting local indigenous peoples' lives and realities.
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Regional labour market adjustments in a period of structural transformation: an assessment of the canadian case
TL;DR: A new geography has been produced in Canada's regional labour markets by the recent phase of economic transformation as mentioned in this paper, associated with the selective move from mass production to various forms of flexible production, and by the progressive integration of Canada into the global economy.
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History, violence, and the emergence of Guatemala’s mining sector
TL;DR: The authors examines why violence manifests the way it does and among whom through a world systems lens that interrogates how histories of ethno-racialized exclusion remain embedded in the Guatemalan state and market relations.
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The Limits to Capital
TL;DR: The Limits to Capital as mentioned in this paper is a theory of capital that links a general Marxian theory of financial and geographical crises with the incredible turmoil now being experienced in world markets, and provides one of the best theoretical guides to the contradictory forms found in the historical and geographical dynamics of capitalist development.
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Spatial Divisions of Labor: Social Structures and the Geography of Production
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the relationship between social relations and spatial organization in the United Kingdom and the effects of these relations on local areas - class and gender relations: the general and the unique the coalfield areas a different kind of "Periphery" - the case of Cornwall.
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A theory of capitalist regulation : the US experience : with a new postface by the author
Michel Aglietta,David Fernbach +1 more
TL;DR: Aglietta's path-breaking book as mentioned in this paper is the first attempt at a rigorous historical theory of the whole development of US capitalism, from the Civil War to the Carter presidency.
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