This Handbook deepens and extends the engagement between research concerned with work and employment and labour geography. It links fundamental concepts concerning the politics of place that human geographers have developed in recent years with the world of work

1. Work and labour in great transformations -- 2. Fictitious decommodification : the failure of industrial citizenship -- 3. Labour recommodification in the global transformation -- 4. Inequality, class and the 'precariat' -- 5. Crumbling barriers to decommodification -- 6. Occupational...

"This volume presents a global range of ethnographic case studies to explore the ways in which - in the context of the restructuring of industrial work, the ongoing financial crisis, and the surge in unemployment and precarious employment - local and global actors engage with complex social...