David Sadler
Biographic Data
| ID | 237011 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Sadler |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Sadler |
| SIGNATURE | SADLER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6465-3420 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 366 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Neo-liberalising corporate social responsibility: A political economy of corporate citizenship
Simulations and Role Playing (S&RP) I Track Summary
Undergraduates often have difficulty conceptualizing phenomena for which they have little experience, such as life in an Islamic state or the pressures of foreign policy decision making. The participants of the S&RP Track I explored multiple ways political science might address this challenge. While the exercises employed by participants differed, the desire to help students experientially learn key concepts and materials provided the central mot…
Contesting Works Closures in Western Europe's Old Industrial Regions: Defending Place or Betraying Class?
Ten Years of European Urban and Regional Studies
Anti‐corporate Campaigning and Corporate “Social” Responsibility: Towards Alternative Spaces of Citizenship? 1
This paper seeks to bring together debates on anti‐corporate protest with discussions on the nature of corporate responsibility. It does so in order to examine the implications of this interaction between conflicting social forces for the constitution of citizenship on the one hand, and for an understanding of the corporation on the other. I first identify the significance of anti‐corporate activism within the current anti‐globalisation movement.…
Cluster Evolution, the Transformation of Old Industrial Regions and the Steel Industry Supply Chain in North East England
Sadler D. (2004) Cluster evolution, the transformation of old industrial regions and the steel industry supply chain in North East England, Reg. Studies 38, 55–66. This paper reports on research carried out in response to the decline of the steel industry in North East England. Drawing on survey evidence, it maps out the consequences of contraction for the industry’s regional supply chain. The issues confronting engineering firms are explored in …
Australian Trade Unions and the Politics of Scale: Reconstructing the Spatiality of Industrial Relations
In this article, we explore responses of trade unions to the reconfiguration of the Australian industrial relations system in the 1990s. We argue that a major characteristic of these changes is the way in which they were socially constructed as necessary imperatives of globalization and new modes of production. Our interpretation focuses on the importance of geographic scale. We contend that a relational sense of scale is consistent with an analy…
Trade unions, coalitions and communities: Australia’s Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union and the international stakeholder campaign against Rio Tinto
Networks of value, commodities and regions: Reworking divisions of labour in macro-regional economies
The aim of this paper is to explore a theoretical framework that can assist in under-standing the extent to which the increased integration of macro-regional economies (such as the European and North American) and the global economy is leading to divergence and/or convergence in the pattern of economic activity and the distribution of value-added and wealth. In particular, the paper focuses on the extent to which changing divisions of labour, the…
In Search of Regional Industrial Culture: The Role of Labour Organisations in Old Industrial Regions
This paper examines the ways in which the institutions of organised labour contribute to the formulation of regional industrial culture. We argue that industrial culture is fundamental to an understanding of uneven regional development. This industrial culture is dynamic, both product and constituent of negotiated social activities that involve the traditions and capacities of labour as an actor in its own right. We address the question of precis…
Organizing European Labour: Governance, Production, Trade Unions and the Question of Scale
This paper addresses two main debates: the recent geographical literature on trade union strategy and structure, and contemporary accounts of European labour market governance. Geographers have begun to take notice of organized labour just as it has faced a series of unprecedented challenges, which are partly derived from ongoing changes in the organization of production. In interpreting these debates I focus on the process of scaling – the ways …
Euro-Commentaries
Regional development strategies: A European perspective
Internationalization and Specialization in the European Automotive Components Sector: Implications for the Hollowing-out Thesis
SADLER D. (1999) Internationalization and specialization in the European automotive components sector: implications for the hollowing-out thesis, Reg. Studies 33 , 109-119. This paper explores two questions: the geographical conditions associated with an altered relationship between automobile assembly and component firms in Europe; and the ways in which automotive component firms have restructured their operations on a global basis. The first se…
Euro-Commentaries
Changing Inter-Firm Relations in the European Automotive Industry: Increased Dependence or Enhanced Autonomy for Components Producers
This article explores the extent to which the benefits of new forms of inter-firm partnership within the European automotive industry have been shared between assemblers and component producers. It first considers the changing nature of the buyer-supplier relationship from the viewpoint of different parties and as part of a process of restructuring within the filiere. Then it documents patterns of performance, comparing samples of five European v…
The Global Economy in Transition
1. Part 1: Globalization of Production Systems: Theory 2. Introduction 3. Shut up and Dance, or is the Economy Knowable? 4. Restructuring the Production System 5. The 'Newer' International Division of Labour 6. Dissolving Difference? Money, Disembedding and the Creation of 'Global Financial Space' 7. Part II: Globalization of Production Systems: Processes 8. Information Technology and Production Systems 9. The Development of Multinational Enterpr…
The Global Music Business as an Information Industry: Reinterpreting Economies of Culture
In this paper it is argued that the music business should be regarded as an activity trading in information. The paper begins with a review of key themes in the conceptualisation of the music industry within the cultural economies tradition. These are the tensions between creativity and commerce and between global and local processes, and the characterisation of the industry in the terms of the flexible specialisation and reflexive accumulation t…
Recent Doctoral Dissertations in Human and Economic Geography at Nordic Universities
Struggle over Strategy: States, Localities, and Economic Restructuring in Sunderland and Uddevalla
A New Journal for the New Europes
Spatial policy in a divided nation
State and Market in Eastern Europe: Regional Development and Workplace Implications of Direct Foreign Investment in the Automobile Industry in Hungary
David Sadler, Adam Swain, State and Market in Eastern Europe: Regional Development and Workplace Implications of Direct Foreign Investment in the Automobile Industry in Hungary, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 19, No. 4 (1994), pp. 387-403
The Geographies of Just-in-Time: Japanese Investment and the Automotive Components Industry in Western Europe
Japanese investment in automobile production in North America and Western Europe during the 1980s and early 1990s posed some sharp questions about the future of domestically owned assemblers and automotive component companies. In North America, substantial expansion by Japanese parts suppliers established new locational patterns geared to producing “just-in-time” (JIT) for the Japanese “transplant” assemblers. In Western Europe, by contrast, Japa…
Regional development in the 1990s: The British Isles in transition
Networks of value, commodities and regions: Reworking divisions of labour in macro-regional economies
The aim of this paper is to explore a theoretical framework that can assist in under-standing the extent to which the increased integration of macro-regional economies (such as the European and North American) and the global economy is leading to divergence and/or convergence in the pattern of economic activity and the distribution of value-added and wealth. In particular, the paper focuses on the extent to which changing divisions of labour, the…
Neo-liberalising corporate social responsibility: A political economy of corporate citizenship
Organizing European Labour: Governance, Production, Trade Unions and the Question of Scale
This paper addresses two main debates: the recent geographical literature on trade union strategy and structure, and contemporary accounts of European labour market governance. Geographers have begun to take notice of organized labour just as it has faced a series of unprecedented challenges, which are partly derived from ongoing changes in the organization of production. In interpreting these debates I focus on the process of scaling – the ways …
Trade unions, coalitions and communities: Australia’s Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union and the international stakeholder campaign against Rio Tinto
State and Market in Eastern Europe: Regional Development and Workplace Implications of Direct Foreign Investment in the Automobile Industry in Hungary
David Sadler, Adam Swain, State and Market in Eastern Europe: Regional Development and Workplace Implications of Direct Foreign Investment in the Automobile Industry in Hungary, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 19, No. 4 (1994), pp. 387-403
Anti‐corporate Campaigning and Corporate “Social” Responsibility: Towards Alternative Spaces of Citizenship? 1
This paper seeks to bring together debates on anti‐corporate protest with discussions on the nature of corporate responsibility. It does so in order to examine the implications of this interaction between conflicting social forces for the constitution of citizenship on the one hand, and for an understanding of the corporation on the other. I first identify the significance of anti‐corporate activism within the current anti‐globalisation movement.…
Cluster Evolution, the Transformation of Old Industrial Regions and the Steel Industry Supply Chain in North East England
Sadler D. (2004) Cluster evolution, the transformation of old industrial regions and the steel industry supply chain in North East England, Reg. Studies 38, 55–66. This paper reports on research carried out in response to the decline of the steel industry in North East England. Drawing on survey evidence, it maps out the consequences of contraction for the industry’s regional supply chain. The issues confronting engineering firms are explored in …
Internationalization and Specialization in the European Automotive Components Sector: Implications for the Hollowing-out Thesis
SADLER D. (1999) Internationalization and specialization in the European automotive components sector: implications for the hollowing-out thesis, Reg. Studies 33 , 109-119. This paper explores two questions: the geographical conditions associated with an altered relationship between automobile assembly and component firms in Europe; and the ways in which automotive component firms have restructured their operations on a global basis. The first se…
Region, Class, and the Politics of Steel Closures in the European Community
One expression of the changing international division of labour and the generalized crisis of capitalist production during the 1970s was that the steel industry in the European Community slid into a deep and seemingly intractable crisis with rapidly falling profits or escalating losses. In an attempt to restore profitability, private capital, national states, and the supranational EEC (European Economic Community) initiated a series of severe cap…
The Geographies of Just-in-Time: Japanese Investment and the Automotive Components Industry in Western Europe
Japanese investment in automobile production in North America and Western Europe during the 1980s and early 1990s posed some sharp questions about the future of domestically owned assemblers and automotive component companies. In North America, substantial expansion by Japanese parts suppliers established new locational patterns geared to producing “just-in-time” (JIT) for the Japanese “transplant” assemblers. In Western Europe, by contrast, Japa…
Changing Inter-Firm Relations in the European Automotive Industry: Increased Dependence or Enhanced Autonomy for Components Producers
This article explores the extent to which the benefits of new forms of inter-firm partnership within the European automotive industry have been shared between assemblers and component producers. It first considers the changing nature of the buyer-supplier relationship from the viewpoint of different parties and as part of a process of restructuring within the filiere. Then it documents patterns of performance, comparing samples of five European v…
The Global Music Business as an Information Industry: Reinterpreting Economies of Culture
In this paper it is argued that the music business should be regarded as an activity trading in information. The paper begins with a review of key themes in the conceptualisation of the music industry within the cultural economies tradition. These are the tensions between creativity and commerce and between global and local processes, and the characterisation of the industry in the terms of the flexible specialisation and reflexive accumulation t…
State Policies and the Changing Geography of the Coal Industry in the United Kingdom in the 1980s and 1990s
Ray Hudson, David Sadler, State Policies and the Changing Geography of the Coal Industry in the United Kingdom in the 1980s and 1990s, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 15, No. 4 (1990), pp. 435-454
Australian Trade Unions and the Politics of Scale: Reconstructing the Spatiality of Industrial Relations
In this article, we explore responses of trade unions to the reconfiguration of the Australian industrial relations system in the 1990s. We argue that a major characteristic of these changes is the way in which they were socially constructed as necessary imperatives of globalization and new modes of production. Our interpretation focuses on the importance of geographic scale. We contend that a relational sense of scale is consistent with an analy…
Routine Action, Reproduction of Social Relations, and the Place Market: Consett after the Closure
Reproduction of social relations has been most problematic in communities undergoing drastic and sudden economic and social change. Through the experience of one such community, the town of Consett, County Durham, this analysis is an attempt to draw out the broader implications of this reproduction. Two particular policy measures are highlighted as expressions of the general aim of the reintroduction of the commodity form: a conventional reindust…
Employment Change in UK Steel Closure Areas During the 1980s: Policy Implications and Lessons for Scotland
HUDSON R., SADLER D. and TOWNSEND A. (1992) Employment change in UK steel closure areas during the 1980s: policy implications and lessons for Scotland, Reg. Studies 26, 633–646. The latest phase in the contraction of UK steel production has involved a continued challenge to the future of the industry in Scotland, culminating in British Steel's decision to close its Ravenscraig works there in 1992. The impact of other steel closures within the UK …
The International Steel Industry: Restructuring, State Policies and Localities
Nationalised industry policies and the destruction of communities: Some evidence from North East England
This article examines the operation of three nationalised industries—coal, steel and water—in the North East of England. It looks at the links between them and assesses the impact of their policies on the economy and the environment of the local communities. In addition, it explores the relationship between the private and public sectors by examining the effects of private sector open cast coal production upon the National Coal Board's deep-mined…
In Search of Regional Industrial Culture: The Role of Labour Organisations in Old Industrial Regions
This paper examines the ways in which the institutions of organised labour contribute to the formulation of regional industrial culture. We argue that industrial culture is fundamental to an understanding of uneven regional development. This industrial culture is dynamic, both product and constituent of negotiated social activities that involve the traditions and capacities of labour as an actor in its own right. We address the question of precis…
Spatial policy in a divided nation
Regional development strategies: A European perspective
Regional development in the 1990s: The British Isles in transition
The Social Foundations of Planning and the Power of Capital: Teesside in Historical Context
A key distinguishing feature of British society in the 1980s was a redrawing of the legitimate extent and nature of state intervention in the workings of a market economy. Deregulation, intended to enhance the power of capital, depended centrally not just upon creating and sustaining new labour-market conditions, but also on developing an environment in which capital had freedom to invest and manoeuvre (inter)nationally and locally. One mechanism…
Euro-Commentaries
A New Journal for the New Europes
Region, Class, and the Politics of Steel Closures in the European Community
One expression of the changing international division of labour and the generalized crisis of capitalist production during the 1970s was that the steel industry in the European Community slid into a deep and seemingly intractable crisis with rapidly falling profits or escalating losses. In an attempt to restore profitability, private capital, national states, and the supranational EEC (European Economic Community) initiated a series of severe cap…
Communities in Crisis: The Social and Political Effects of Steel Closures in France, West Germany, and the United Kingdom
The historical geography of the growth of the steel industry in Western Europe led to communities that were heavily, even wholly, reliant on the jobs and wages generated by steel production. In this article we focus on some of the social and political implications for such communities of contraction in the steel industry since the mid-1970s
Routine Action, Reproduction of Social Relations, and the Place Market: Consett after the Closure
Reproduction of social relations has been most problematic in communities undergoing drastic and sudden economic and social change. Through the experience of one such community, the town of Consett, County Durham, this analysis is an attempt to draw out the broader implications of this reproduction. Two particular policy measures are highlighted as expressions of the general aim of the reintroduction of the commodity form: a conventional reindust…
Nationalised industry policies and the destruction of communities: Some evidence from North East England
This article examines the operation of three nationalised industries—coal, steel and water—in the North East of England. It looks at the links between them and assesses the impact of their policies on the economy and the environment of the local communities. In addition, it explores the relationship between the private and public sectors by examining the effects of private sector open cast coal production upon the National Coal Board's deep-mined…
Manufactured in the UK? Special steels, motor vehicles and the politics of industrial decline
A study of the crisis of the special steels sector in Sheffield reveals major weaknesses both in traditional strategies for restructuring such as nationalisation and in new ones such as local economic strategies. Strategic choices in the sector are constrained by interdependence with sectors like the automobile industry and by the political and economic restrictions of the EEC. Meanwhile creeping privatisation continues. The authors argue that an…
The International Steel Industry: Restructuring, State Policies and Localities
State Policies and the Changing Geography of the Coal Industry in the United Kingdom in the 1980s and 1990s
Ray Hudson, David Sadler, State Policies and the Changing Geography of the Coal Industry in the United Kingdom in the 1980s and 1990s, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 15, No. 4 (1990), pp. 435-454
The Social Foundations of Planning and the Power of Capital: Teesside in Historical Context
A key distinguishing feature of British society in the 1980s was a redrawing of the legitimate extent and nature of state intervention in the workings of a market economy. Deregulation, intended to enhance the power of capital, depended centrally not just upon creating and sustaining new labour-market conditions, but also on developing an environment in which capital had freedom to invest and manoeuvre (inter)nationally and locally. One mechanism…
A Tale of Two Industries: The Contraction of Coal and Steel in the North East of England
Part 1 The context - coal and steel 1970-85 expansion and contraction - two sides of state planning international markets a privatizing tendency Part 2 The closure of Horden colliery the colliery and its reserves closure Part 3 Themes, issues, problems rationalization, privatization and the market halting economic decline
Employment Change in UK Steel Closure Areas During the 1980s: Policy Implications and Lessons for Scotland
HUDSON R., SADLER D. and TOWNSEND A. (1992) Employment change in UK steel closure areas during the 1980s: policy implications and lessons for Scotland, Reg. Studies 26, 633–646. The latest phase in the contraction of UK steel production has involved a continued challenge to the future of the industry in Scotland, culminating in British Steel's decision to close its Ravenscraig works there in 1992. The impact of other steel closures within the UK …
Industrial Policy of the European Community: Strategic Deficits and Regional Dilemmas
Industrial policy of the European Community (EC) shifted in emphasis towards a neoliberal approach in the late 1980s as one part of moves towards completion of the single internal market by 1992. Intervention by national governments was also to be curtailed (in theory at least) on the grounds that it would be contrary to fair competition and free trade. There is mounting evidence, however, that European industry is increasingly falling behind its…
Restructuring the Global Automobile Industry: National and Regional Impacts
Regional development in the 1990s: The British Isles in transition
Approaching Human Geography: An Introduction to Contemporary Theoretical Debates
A New Journal for the New Europes
Spatial policy in a divided nation
State and Market in Eastern Europe: Regional Development and Workplace Implications of Direct Foreign Investment in the Automobile Industry in Hungary
David Sadler, Adam Swain, State and Market in Eastern Europe: Regional Development and Workplace Implications of Direct Foreign Investment in the Automobile Industry in Hungary, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 19, No. 4 (1994), pp. 387-403
The Geographies of Just-in-Time: Japanese Investment and the Automotive Components Industry in Western Europe
Japanese investment in automobile production in North America and Western Europe during the 1980s and early 1990s posed some sharp questions about the future of domestically owned assemblers and automotive component companies. In North America, substantial expansion by Japanese parts suppliers established new locational patterns geared to producing “just-in-time” (JIT) for the Japanese “transplant” assemblers. In Western Europe, by contrast, Japa…
Recent Doctoral Dissertations in Human and Economic Geography at Nordic Universities
Struggle over Strategy: States, Localities, and Economic Restructuring in Sunderland and Uddevalla
The Global Music Business as an Information Industry: Reinterpreting Economies of Culture
In this paper it is argued that the music business should be regarded as an activity trading in information. The paper begins with a review of key themes in the conceptualisation of the music industry within the cultural economies tradition. These are the tensions between creativity and commerce and between global and local processes, and the characterisation of the industry in the terms of the flexible specialisation and reflexive accumulation t…
Euro-Commentaries
Changing Inter-Firm Relations in the European Automotive Industry: Increased Dependence or Enhanced Autonomy for Components Producers
This article explores the extent to which the benefits of new forms of inter-firm partnership within the European automotive industry have been shared between assemblers and component producers. It first considers the changing nature of the buyer-supplier relationship from the viewpoint of different parties and as part of a process of restructuring within the filiere. Then it documents patterns of performance, comparing samples of five European v…
The Global Economy in Transition
1. Part 1: Globalization of Production Systems: Theory 2. Introduction 3. Shut up and Dance, or is the Economy Knowable? 4. Restructuring the Production System 5. The 'Newer' International Division of Labour 6. Dissolving Difference? Money, Disembedding and the Creation of 'Global Financial Space' 7. Part II: Globalization of Production Systems: Processes 8. Information Technology and Production Systems 9. The Development of Multinational Enterpr…
Euro-Commentaries
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