Building the ‘competitive city’
Labour and Toronto’s bid to host the Olympic games
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8942835 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Steven Tuft (0000-0002-7532-3301, York University, corresponding author), Steven Tufts |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 47-58 |
| Publication date | 2003-10-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geoforum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7185 • E-ISSN: 1872-9398 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.geoforum.2003.01.001 |
| OpenAlex | W2045544079 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 27 |
Agency (philosophy · Economic geography · Economics · Global city · Host (biology · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
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La manufacture de l’événement, objet d’enquêtes de sciences sociales
Early community recommendations for sustainable mega-events
The closer to danger, farther from harm? The impact of sport mega events in communities affected by infrastructure associated with the Fifa World Cup 2014 in Porto Alegre
Festivals framed as unequal
Tokyo - Bidding for the Olympics and the Discrepancies of Nationalism
An Olympic legacy for all? The non-infrastructural outcomes of the Olympic Games for socially excluded groups (Atlanta 1996–Beijing 2008)
Justice for Janitors
Welcoming the World? Hospitality, Homonationalism, and the London 2012 Olympics
We Make it Work
From 'Event-led' to 'Event-themed' Regeneration
Aggregating dispersed workers
Hospitality unionism and labour market adjustment
The urban in fragile, uncertain, neoliberal times
On the Work of Urbanization
World Cities and Union Renewal
Tourism's labour geographies
London's Olympics in 2012
Non-events and their legacies
Emerging Labour Strategies in Toronto's Hotel Sector
Public Sector Unions Shaping Hospital Privatization
City-Regions and Social Reproduction
Delivering Flagship Projects in an Era of Regulatory Capitalism
The Urban Politics of Mega-Events
Inside the Olympic Industry
Organizing the landscape
Geographies of Economies
Ecology of Fear
Bargaining for the space to organize in the global economy
Community Unionism in Canada and Labor's (Re)Organization of Space
From a Geography of Labor to a Labor Geography
Toronto Inc? Planning the Competitive City in the New Toronto
The condition of postmodernity
The Politics of Bread and Circuses
The Olympic spirit and civic boosterism
Taking on the CosmoCorps? Experiments in Transnational Labor Organization
The Practice of International Labor Solidarity and the Geography of the Global Economy
Rupture or Continuity? Modern and Postmodern Planning in Toronto
Workers and Workplaces in a Neoliberal Global Economy
Going for Gold
What Happened to Class
Organizing the Scale of Labor Regulation in the United States
The Condition of Postmodernity
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,09 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2024 (21) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |