This special collection of papers, published in this and the next issue of Environment and
Planning A, arose from a session held at the 1999 RGS^ IBG Conference in Leicester during …

The publication of Jamie Peck's Work-place in 1996 marked an important culmination of
over a decade and half of research and theorizing by human and economic geographers …

Manual work in British local authorities has been substantially restructured since the
introduction of compulsory competitive tendering (CCT) in 1988. The central argument of the …

Lawton R.(1968) The journey to work in Britain: Some trends and problems, Reg. Studies 2,
27–40. A comparison of data on workplace and usual residence in the 1951 and 1961 …

In this final report I offer a review of recent work in labour geography (broadly defined), a
blossoming and increasingly mature subfield of economic geography. The review covers …

As is usual in this Series, most of the chapters are drawn from papers contributed to the
Annual International Labour Process Conference. Indeed the main impetus for the book …

Labour has for a long time been an important concept in economic geography, but more
often as a cost that influences investment decisions than as a social force in its own right …

Work, or the experience of work, shapes or defines individuals. Work is one of the basic
building blocks, perhaps the most basic building block, of regional economic activity. The …

It is important to note… that in establishing a journal which we hope will act as a focus for
research and scholarship in this important field, we wish to provide a forum for all those …

In his magisterial book Geographical Imaginations Derek Gregory (1995) usefully
distinguished between the discipline and the discourse of geography. He argued that whilst …