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Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society Advance Access originally published online on September 17, 2009
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 2009 2(3):335-342; doi:10.1093/cjres/rsp024
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Cambridge Political Economy Society. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Transforming work: new forms of employment and their regulation

Linda McDowella and Susan Christophersonb

a School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK, linda.mcdowell@geog.ox.ac.uk
b Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA, smc23@cornell.edu

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The papers in this issue were originally written in response to a conference call in early 2008 in which we invited papers that would:

critically interrogate the claims made about the consequences of the growth of new knowledge economies or the new service economy at different spatial scales. Within and between economies, regions and cities, new divisions of labour, new patterns of workplace participation and the entry of expanding and increasingly diverse labour forces raise a range of questions, from issues of labour market polarization, new social and spatial inequalities, job quality, feminization, economic migration, to questions about the growth of outsourcing, new patterns of trade and new global connections, making the regulation of the labour relation . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   What counts as precarious work and who is doing it?
 

   Key questions: spatial variation, change over time, worker characteristics and their response
 

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