This article examines the development of the sociology of consumption. It identifies three
periods in its evolution: origins prior to the 1980s; the years between the 1980s and the mid …

The growth in consumption of supermarket 'own brand'food lines is having a significant
impact on the organization and management of agri-food supply chains. In past decades …

During the 1990s, I worked intermittently on a book focused on geographies of production,
eventually published in 2001 as Producing Places. As I did so, I was increasingly aware of …

Local food is championed as one alternative response to industrial systems of food
production and supply. While advocacy for local food is high, there is a lack of empirical …

This paper explores the implications of the rapid internationalization of a small cadre of retail
transnational corporations over the last 15 years for supply network structures in a range of …

This article explores supply chain pressures in parcel delivery and how the drive to contain
costs to 'preserve value in motion', including the costs of failed delivery, underpins …

As new and old technologies generally co-exist in the complex production methods that
characterise major sectors of modern developed economies, it is important for policy makers …

Illustrating contemporary policy debates using both theoretical perspectives and empirical
evidence, this book will appeal to academics, researchers and students specialising in …

Before the invention of the combine, the binder was an essential harvesting implement that
cut grain and bound the stalks in bundles tied with twine that could then be hand-gathered …

The thrust of argument is to develop a relational conception of the call centre as one phase
in an integral process of production or provision through to consumption, that relates …