Making a Living in Europe : Human Geographies of Economic Change

ISBN-13: 9780415144803 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 288 str.

Alan R. Townsend;Townsend Alan

Opis

Will making a living remain a dream for the deprived and excluded? Jobs are one of Europe's most important problems. Employment provides the basic means of distributing wealth in society, in providing for families, and ensuring pensions for the elderly. Yet unemployment, and increasingly non-employment, continues at near record levels in the European Union. This text shows how the culture of work has been transformed in the industrialized nations of the EU. Exploring the relationship between employment change, society and economic restructuring, the shift toward flexible work for women in services, away from traditional industrial jobs for men, is demonstrated within three key sectors - business services, retailing and tourism. The outcome of change is discussed in terms of shifts of people and jobs from urban to rural areas.

Recenzje

'A useful account of a wide range of issues ... it certainly succeeds in examining the intersections of economic geography with political, social and cultural theory ... the book will provide a useful source text.' - Economic Geography Research Group

Spis treści

List of figures, List of tables, Preface, Acknowledgements, Conventions for the European Union (EU), Part I Restructuring, flexibility and unemployment, Part II The main sectors of change, Part III Consequences across the map of the European Union, Bibliography, Index

O autorze

Alan Townsend