Labour and Locality

<p>Originally published in 1992, the volume shows through the lens of labour processes how global forces are played out at the local level. A range of important issues is addressed, including the commoditization and transformation of rural labour, and the role played by state policy in restructuring rural labour markets. </p> <p>Introduction: Labour and Locality: Emerging Research Issues <i>Terry Marsden, Philip Lowe</i> and <i>Sarah Whatmore</i> 1. The Reconstitution of Locality: Technology and Labour in Modern Agriculture <i>Jan Douwe Van der Ploeg</i> 2. Transformation of the Labour System and Work Processes in a Rapidly Modernising Agriculture: The Evolving Case of Spain <i>Miren Etxezarreta</i> 3. Rural Labour Markets Meeting Urbanisation and the Arena Society: New Challenges for Policy and Planning in Rural Scandinavia <i>Lars Olof Persson</i> 4. Class-based Social Mobility on the Rural/Urban Fringe: Cambodian Farmworkers in Philadelphia <i>Max J. Pfeffer </i>5. Local Culture, Life Mode and Development in a Norwegian Rural Community <i>Mariann Villa</i> and <i>Reidar Almås</i> 6. On the Margins: Uneven Development and Rural Restructuring in the Highlands of Scotland <i>Richard J. Smith</i> 7. Representing the Region: Welsh Farmers and the British State <i>Jonathon Murdoch</i> . </p>