Spaces of Work: Global Capitalism and Geographies of Labour
本书回顾了经济地理学中劳动研究学派的发展，批判了以往忽视劳动者能动性的空间分析，提出结合马克思主义与激进制度主义的框架，分析全球资本主义下劳动市场的多样性与劳动者经验。
N. Castree, N. Coe, K. Ward and M. Samers London: Sage, 2004. ISBN 0-7619-7217-X, 303 pp. Price: $44.95 The emergence of a distinctive labour studies school over the last decade has been an important development within economic geography. Up until recently, capital and state-centric accounts of spatial economic development have largely ignored or underplayed the role of labour in shaping the global economy. Both conventional spatial analysis and more radical perspectives have tended to portray labour as a rather passive ingredient/victim of spatial restructuring processes, neglecting its continuing role as both individual and collective agent in shaping the economic landscape. Framed in this context, the publication of Spaces of Work represents an important landmark in providing an accessible student textbook that sits alongside the earlier pioneering work of geographers such as Andrew Herod, Jane Wills and Jamie Peck. The book's starting point is to re-embed labour within a dynamic and contested set of social relations at the heart of the emerging global economy. This is skilfully done through an ‘Orientations’ chapter that begins with a number of vignettes of individual workers' experiences of the global economy, as a way into understanding the uneven landscape of work under advanced capitalism. The chapter sets the scene for the following chapter which lays out the book's conceptual approach, which could be described as combining a broadly Marxist framework with a radical institutionalist approach. This allows the development of a strong political economy approach while allowing for variation and human agency in understanding the operation of the labour market and world of work. In other words, the book develops a sophisticated analysis of class relations while at the same time maintaining a sense of humanity and empathy to the every day experience of workers.