Social dimensions of mining: Research, policy and practice challenges for the minerals industry in Australia

F Solomon, E Katz, R Lovel - Resources Policy, 2008 - Elsevier
The social dimensions of the mining industry are increasingly acknowledged as critical to
business success, yet remain the least understood aspect of the business concept of …

Working space: why incorporating the geographical is central to theorizing work and employment practices

A Herod, A Rainnie… - Work, employment and …, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
Theorists of work and employment (W&E) practices should more seriously engage with
literatures concerning how space is constitutive of social praxis. Rather than simply serving …

Varieties of power in transnational labor alliances: An analysis of workers' structural, institutional, and coalitional power in the global economy

M Brookes - Labor Studies Journal, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Workers exercise three distinct types of power when they cooperate in transnational
campaigns: structural, institutional, and coalitional power. These power types entail the …

[图书][B] The new politics of transnational labor: Why some alliances succeed

M Brookes - 2019 - books.google.com
Over the years many transnational labor alliances have succeeded in improving conditions
for workers, but many more have not. In The New Politics of Transnational Labor, Marissa …

Miners, politics and institutional caryatids: Accounting for the transfer of HRM practices in the Brazilian multinational enterprise

J Geary, R Aguzzoli - Journal of International Business Studies, 2016 - Springer
This article contributes to the growing stream of research on power and micro-politics in the
MNE. It is situated in the critical realist epistemology. It adopts Burawoy's extended case …

The emotional geography of a mine closure: a study of the Ravensthorpe nickel mine in Western Australia

B Pini, R Mayes, P McDonald - Social & Cultural Geography, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
This paper engages with the literature on emotional geographies to report on a case study of
the emotions surrounding the closure of a nickel mine in the shire of Ravensthorpe in the …

Mining work, family and community: A spatially-oriented approach to the impact of the Ravensthorpe nickel mine closure in remote Australia

P McDonald, R Mayes, B Pini - Journal of Industrial …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
While changes in work and employment practices in the mining sector have been profound,
the literature addressing mining work is somewhat partial as it focuses primarily on the …

Reinterpreting core and periphery in Australia's mineral and energy resources boom: an Innisian perspective on the Pilbara

N Argent - Australian Geographer, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Australia's current robust macro-economic condition, at least relative to that of many
comparator nations within Europe and the USA, is built largely on the nation's particular …

State capitalism in construction: Staffing practices and labour relations of Chinese construction firms in Africa

FL Cooke, D Wang, J Wang - Journal of Industrial Relations, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
A distinct feature of China's involvement in the economic development of African countries in
recent years has been the Chinese government's financing and participation in infrastructure …

Geographies of the labour process: Automation and the spatiality of mining

B Ellem - Work, employment and society, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Productive ways of thinking about work have emerged from the recent engagement between
scholars in employment relations and human geography without any sustained attention to …