Journal of Economic Geography Advance Access originally published online on November 23, 2007
Journal of Economic Geography 2008 8(4):584-586; doi:10.1093/jeg/lbm036
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Work, locality and the rhythms of capital
Jamie Gough
Work, locality and the rhythms of capital
Jamie Gough London: Continuum 2003. ISBN 0-8264-6284-7 (hardback) 325 pp. Price: £65.00
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Jamie Gough has gone back to the late 1970s and early 1980s and returned with 300 pages on workplace change in London's manufacturing industries. Three hundred pages well worth reading, I should add, as this study has a lot to offer both on account of its theoretical insight and its empirical depth.
Chapters 1 through 4 stake out the theoretical terrain of the study. Gough includes mention of recent work on labour and geography such as that by Herod, Peck and Jonas, but it is in his treatment of the Marxist categories of capitalist production that the theoretical discussion really gets interesting. As a contribution to economic geography the book could be described as a return to the workplace. It repeatedly emphasises the labour process as constitutive of many of the factors often regarded as external to the firm, such as competition and spatial value relations.
Gough argues that
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