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Globalisation Lived Locally: A Labour Geography Perspective on Control, Conflict and Response among Workers in Kerala
Author(s) -
Padmanabhan Neethi
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
antipode
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.177
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 1467-8330
pISSN - 0066-4812
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2011.00918.x
Subject(s) - globalization , capitalism , economic geography , perspective (graphical) , capital (architecture) , scale (ratio) , clothing , relevance (law) , economics , political economy , sociology , economic system , political science , geography , market economy , cartography , archaeology , artificial intelligence , politics , computer science , law
Supported by the labour geography framework, I analyse how spatial practices of labour shape the economic geography of capitalism, by looking into a model not at a global but at a very local scale of organisation and showing its effectiveness while confronting social actors organised at global or extra‐local scales. Questioning global stereotypes on economic responses to globalisation, I argue that labour becomes actively involved in the very process of globalisation and the expansion of capital, empirically demonstrating the relevance of this in the globalisation literature. I deal with one region—Kerala—and processes in its labour markets, taking the case of apparel workers in an export‐promoting industrial park.