Böcker av Andrew Herod

Labor is the source of all wealth. Without workers, the world's natural resources cannot be transformed into finished goods and services cannot be delivered. Labor, though, is a uniquely important resource for the very simple reason that working people have sentience.

Geographical scale is a central concept enabling us to make sense of the world we inhabit. This book provides a structured investigation of the debates concerning the concept of scale and how various geographical scales have been thought about within critical social theory.

Challenging such neoliberal assumptions as the "death of distance" and suggestions that geography no longer matters within a shrinking globe, Geographies of Globalization is a critical introduction to the concepts and realities surrounding what has become the leitmotif of our contemporary world.