Work-Place: The Social Regulation of Labor Markets

by Jamie Peck

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572300442
• ISBN13: 9781572300446
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Guilford Publications
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"