The growth of precarious employment across Canada prompted sociologists and community researchers... more The growth of precarious employment across Canada prompted sociologists and community researchers to understand the causes and consequences of insecure work. However, structural context often leads research organizations’ goals to conflict with those of its members. According to organizational theory, external pressures influence organizational goals and their approaches to problem solving. Thus, the purpose of this article is to illuminate some of the concrete ways that such pressures, known as embeddedness, help to shape research output. We draw on written reflective analyses of our experiences with embeddedness while working in the research organization Poverty and Employment Precarity in Niagara (PEPiN) to highlight the external factors which constrained our data analysis and our final report’s legislative and workplace policy recommendations for relieving the economic and family stresses associated with precarious work. We argue that embeddedness under neoliberal conditions lim...
International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2009
Relational economic geography represents a broad set of theoretical approaches, which have an exp... more Relational economic geography represents a broad set of theoretical approaches, which have an explicit focus on the social foundations of economic processes. A central concern of studies that constitute this line of inquiry is an understanding of how the nature, scale, and structure of social relations between key economic actors shape processes of restructuring and consequent economic performance. This article outlines the constitutive features of relational economic geography. The article begins by providing a historical context for the rise of relational economic geography, situating it as a response to empirical trends as well as the limits of past approaches. Then, the key attributes associated with relational economic studies are presented. Given the diversity of perspectives that fall within a school of ‘relational’ thinking, the discussion highlights not only a general approach that has dominated an earlier wave of studies but also an alternative set of approaches that have come into ascendance of late. While earlier studies emphasize a place-based approach to analyzing key networks associated with economic learning, highlighting how proximity can allow for institutions that facilitate knowledge exchange, more recent analyses are agency centered and focus on the contingent nature and scale of such networks. The article concludes with reflections on the state of relational economic geography as a ‘work-in-progress’, underlining the conceptual and methodological challenges that remain.
Abstract: This research empirically investigates the pattern of employment change within the Unit... more Abstract: This research empirically investigates the pattern of employment change within the United States between 1940 and 1989 using an analysis of variance model to partition employment change into that accounted for by (1) national trends in employment,(2) place-independent, sector-specific restructuring of employment,(3) place-specific, sector-independent shifts of employment, and (4) local employment conditions. Because we are concerned with a national system of capitalism, we use regulation theory to inform our ...
For almost two decades, economic geography has become increasingly populated with texts concerned... more For almost two decades, economic geography has become increasingly populated with texts concerned with the ways in which social interactions between economic agents have shaped the geography of economic performance.
The growth of precarious employment across Canada prompted sociologists and community researchers... more The growth of precarious employment across Canada prompted sociologists and community researchers to understand the causes and consequences of insecure work. However, structural context often leads research organizations’ goals to conflict with those of its members. According to organizational theory, external pressures influence organizational goals and their approaches to problem solving. Thus, the purpose of this article is to illuminate some of the concrete ways that such pressures, known as embeddedness, help to shape research output. We draw on written reflective analyses of our experiences with embeddedness while working in the research organization Poverty and Employment Precarity in Niagara (PEPiN) to highlight the external factors which constrained our data analysis and our final report’s legislative and workplace policy recommendations for relieving the economic and family stresses associated with precarious work. We argue that embeddedness under neoliberal conditions lim...
International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2009
Relational economic geography represents a broad set of theoretical approaches, which have an exp... more Relational economic geography represents a broad set of theoretical approaches, which have an explicit focus on the social foundations of economic processes. A central concern of studies that constitute this line of inquiry is an understanding of how the nature, scale, and structure of social relations between key economic actors shape processes of restructuring and consequent economic performance. This article outlines the constitutive features of relational economic geography. The article begins by providing a historical context for the rise of relational economic geography, situating it as a response to empirical trends as well as the limits of past approaches. Then, the key attributes associated with relational economic studies are presented. Given the diversity of perspectives that fall within a school of ‘relational’ thinking, the discussion highlights not only a general approach that has dominated an earlier wave of studies but also an alternative set of approaches that have come into ascendance of late. While earlier studies emphasize a place-based approach to analyzing key networks associated with economic learning, highlighting how proximity can allow for institutions that facilitate knowledge exchange, more recent analyses are agency centered and focus on the contingent nature and scale of such networks. The article concludes with reflections on the state of relational economic geography as a ‘work-in-progress’, underlining the conceptual and methodological challenges that remain.
Abstract: This research empirically investigates the pattern of employment change within the Unit... more Abstract: This research empirically investigates the pattern of employment change within the United States between 1940 and 1989 using an analysis of variance model to partition employment change into that accounted for by (1) national trends in employment,(2) place-independent, sector-specific restructuring of employment,(3) place-specific, sector-independent shifts of employment, and (4) local employment conditions. Because we are concerned with a national system of capitalism, we use regulation theory to inform our ...
For almost two decades, economic geography has become increasingly populated with texts concerned... more For almost two decades, economic geography has become increasingly populated with texts concerned with the ways in which social interactions between economic agents have shaped the geography of economic performance.
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