Re-Placing Informal Employment challenges many of the popular myths surrounding
informal economic activities, and offers a radical reassesment of their extent, growth …

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 …

Uncovering how cash-in-hand economies are composed of not only the underground sector
(work akin to formal employment conducted for profit-motivated purposes), but also a hidden …

Illegal immigrants constitute a major issue in southern European countries. This book is the
first piece of published research in this area and gives a comparative analysis of southern …

The transition from fast spontaneous urbanisation in southern Europe, with popular
squatting as a form of civil disobedience, to 'new social movements'(NSMs) for democratic …

The prefix post denotes after, but this evolutionist dimension is the very dimension
postmodernism wants to distance itself from. What the celebrated deconstructionist …

Elements of postmodernism in social and cultural life seem to have been dominant in
Mediterranean Europe before the concept was even coined in the 1970s. It is argued here …

The argument we put forward is that the Southern European welfare systems are
underdeveloped species or a sub-category of the 'state-corporatist'welfare model; within this …

In this article I explore the hypothesis that the four countries which make up the southern part
of the European Union constitute variants on a particular model of capitalist development …

Immigrants arrived almost unnoticed in southern European countries in the 1980s, and
found its governments ill-prepared. Weak entry controls and large informal sectors …