This book critically interrogates the work of David Harvey, one of the world's most influential geographers, and one of its best known Marxists.

• Considers the entire range of Harvey's oeuvre, from the nature of urbanism to environmental issues.
• Written by contributors from across the human sciences, operating with a range of critical theories.
• Focuses on key themes in Harvey's work.
• Contains a consolidated bibliography of Harvey's writings.

This book critically interrogates the work of David Harvey, one of the world's most influential geographers, and one of its best known Marxists.

• Considers the entire range of Harvey's oeuvre, from the nature of urbanism to environmental issues.
• Written by contributors from across the human sciences, operating with a range of critical theories.
• Focuses on key themes in Harvey's work.
• Contains a consolidated bibliography of Harvey's writings.

Threads of Labour presents new empirical research by a network of garment workers' support organizations and makes sense of global supply chains from the bottom up.

• Presents new empirical research by a network of garment workers' support organizations in ten different locations in Asia, Europe and Mexico.
• Creates a blueprint for conducting worker-orientated action research in order to better understand and resist the negative impact of globalization on labour.
• Ensures that workers' voices reach those who are already trying to reconfigure global capitalism in...

*Winner of the 2009 Distinguished Scholarly Monograph Prize, awarded by the American Sociological Association Labor and Labor Movements section*

Claims have been made on the emergence of a new labour internationalism in response to the growing insecurity created by globalization. However, when persons face conditions of insecurity they often turn inwards. The book contains a warning and a sign of hope. Some workers become fatalistic, even xenophobic. Others are attempting to globalize their own struggles.

• Examines the claim that a new labour internationalism is emerging...

The book is an analysis of cultural, social as well as political economic expressions of neoliberalization and argues for an appreciation of the relational geographies of neoliberalization.

• In-depth empirical research spanning a variety of world regions
• A range of topics including homelessness, comparative politics, economic development and social policy
• Reviews how neoliberalism is enacted as a way to highlight the complexity and contingency of this economic model
• Engages in debates within anthropology, gender studies, geography, health studies,...