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Labor market

Lim, Kean Fan

Authors

Kean Fan Lim



Contributors

Douglas Richardson
Editor

Noel Castree
Editor

Michael F. Goodchild
Editor

Audrey L. Kobayashi
Editor

Richard Marston
Editor

Abstract

Labor markets are socially-constructed entities that facilitate the buying and selling of labor power. They are effectively political-geographic institutions, governed predominantly by state regulations that apply within specific territorial boundaries. For this reason, analyses of labor markets have tended to be state-centric. Economic geographers have worked assiduously at transcending state-centrism through showing how the buying and selling of labor power is a gendered, multi-dimensional and often transnational process – it is never about the self-correction of prices by abstract forces of demand and supply.

Citation

Lim, K. F. Labor market. In D. Richardson, N. Castree, M. F. Goodchild, A. L. Kobayashi, & R. Marston (Eds.), International encyclopedia of geography: people, the earth, environment, and technology. Wiley-Blackwell

Deposit Date Nov 18, 2015
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Book Title International encyclopedia of geography: people, the earth, environment, and technology
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/988697
Related Public URLs http://www.aag.org/cs/publications/books/encyclopedia

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