Labor and Agglomeration
Control and Flexibility in Local Labor Markets
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4043130 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Peck (0000-0002-1425-9705, University of Manchester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 325 |
| Publication date | 1992-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economic Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0095 • E-ISSN: 1944-8287 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/144023 |
| OpenAlex | W2047264198 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 50 |
| References cited | 56 |
Through a critique of Allen Scott's recent work on the economics of labor market agglomeration, the paper develops an approach to labor and agglomeration in which labor control has a central role
Business · Control (management) · Economic geography · Economics · Economies of agglomeration · Flexibility (engineering) · Labour economics · Management · Microeconomics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis · Urbanization and City Planning
Organizations, recruitment and the local labour market
Sociology and Economic Development Policy
Contentious mobilities and Cheap(er) Labour
Regulating Investment Abroad
Spatiality of regional inequality
Scales and Skills of Monopoly Power
Transferring Production Systems
Toward a Critical Theory of Untidy Geographies
The predicament of firms in the new and old economies
Critical reviews of geographical perspectives on business organizations and the organization of production
The territorial fix
Job Search, Social Networks, and Local Labor-Market Dynamics
The Localization of Development in Comparative Perspective
Fordism at Ford
Behind the scenes
The contradictions of flexibility
Open innovation and its discontents
Sharing and neoliberal discourse
Labor regulation and economic change
Uneven Reserves
The Local Solution? The Schumpeterian Workfare State, Labour Market Governance and Local Boards for Training in Kitchener, Ontario
Local Labour Control Regimes
Placing the Transformation of State-owned Enterprises in North-east China
A Review of Regional Labour Supply and Demand Forecasting in the European Union
Are Labour Markets Necessarily 'Local'? Spatiality, Segmentation and Scale
Labour Flexibility
Organizing European Labour
Control the Ones You Can’
Communities on the Edge
First Nations Economic Development
Shared Performance
Economic Restructuring in Primary Industries
Bringing the Offshore Ashore
Languages of labour
Trapping workers' consent? Temporary work agencies' role in reproducing labour power of non-local workers for Hungarian manufacturing companies
The Linkage between Immigration and Internal Migration in Large Metropolitan Areas in the United States
Locational Avoidance by Nonmetropolitan Industry
Lean Production Systems, Labor Unions, and Greenfield Locations of the Korean New Auto Assembly Plants and Their Suppliers
From 'Sitting by Nellie' to the Classroom Factory? The Restructuring of Skills, Recruitment and Training in a South Wales Motor Components Plant
Labour Recruitment Systems in Global Production Networks
Corporate Citizenship? Elites, Labor, and the Geographies of Work in Guatemala
Reinterpreting the Geography of Accumulation
Unblocking the City? Growth Pressures, Collective Provision, and the Search for New Spaces of Governance in Greater Cambridge, England
The Social Regulation of Uneven Development
The Place-based Work of Global Circulation
Industrial Agglomeration and Development
Globalization Lived Locally
Struggles over Skills
Making the Welfare State Work for Extraction
Does Unauthorized Status Reduce Exposure to Pesticides
Labor and monopoly capital
Regional Dynamics
The second industrial divide
New Industrial Spaces (Studies in Society and Space, 3)
The Urban Experience
The Failure of Training in Britain
Flexibility, hierarchy and regional development
The deindustrialization of America
Brothers
Collective Order and Economic Coordination in Industrial Agglomerations
Spatial Divisions of Labor
The Global City
On the political economy of skill in the advanced industrial nations
Accumulation, regulation and the geographies of post-Fordism
Flexible production systems
The Limits of Flexibility
Agglomeration and the Regional Question
The Role of Large Producers in Industrial Districts
The Nature of the Firm
The End of Economic Man? Custom and Competition in Labour Markets
Flexibility Revisited
Local modes of social regulation? Regulation theory, thatcherism and uneven development
Locality and Community in the Politics of Local Economic Development
Theorizing postfordism
Flexible production systems and regional development
The Economic Institutions of Capitalism
The politics of production
The condition of postmodernity
Industrial Districts
Labour Market Structure
Invisible Threads
Industrial Organization and Location
The Inconsistency of Eclecticism
A 'modern' industry in a 'mature' region
A further rejoinder to Lovering
The urban contradictions of Silicon Valley
Flexibility, Gender and Local Labour Markets - Some Examples from Denmark
An institutional revisit to the Storper-Walker theory of labour
Post-Fordism as Politics
Labour-Market Changes and New Forms of Work in Old Industrial Regions
New Technologies, New Modes of Regulation
Territorial Reproduction and Transformation in a Local Labor Market; The Animated Film Workers of Los Angeles
Mrs Thatcher's Vision of the 'New Britain' and the other Sides of the 'Cambridge Phenomenon
The New Geography and Sociology of Production
The Re-Emergence of Regional Economies? The Mythical Geography of Flexible Accumulation
Postfordism in question
The theory of labour and the theory of location
The New Industrial Spaces
Youth Training and the Local Reconstruction of Skill
Metropolis
The Politics of Training in Britain
Fordism's unknown successor
Gender and Skills
Industrial Discipline
Unequal Opportunity Structure and Labour Market Segmentation
The Dilemmas of Post-Fordism
| Unique citing works | 50 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,56 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2025 (32) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 46 |