A companion to economic geography / edited by Eric Sheppard and Trevor J. Barnes.

"First published in paperback 2003 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd."--T.p. verso.

Originally published: 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

-- Introduction: the art of economic geography / Trevor J. Barnes and Eric Sheppard -- Inventing Anglo-American economic geography, 1889 -1960 -- Modeling tradition / Paul S. Plummer -- Marxian alternative: historical-geographical materialism and the political economy of capitalism / Erik Swyngedouw -- Feminism and economic geography: gendering work and working gender / Ann M. Oberhauser -- Institutional approaches in economic geography / Ron Martin -- Poststructural interventions / J.K. Gibson-Graham -- Geography of production / Richard A. Walker -- laces of work / Jamie Peck -- Industrial districts / Ash Amin -- Competition in space and between places / Eric Sheppard -- Urban and regional growth / Peter Sunley -- Geography and technological change / David L. Rigby -- Resources / Dean M. Hamink -- Agriculture / Brian Page -- Political ecology / Michael Watts -- Production of nature / Noel Castree -- Single industry resource towns / Roger Hayter -- Family, work and consumption: mapping the borderlands of economic geography / Nicky Gregson -- Concepts of class in contemporary economic geography / David Sadler -- Labor unions and economic geography / Andrew Herod -- State and governance / Joe Painter -- Creating the corporate world: strategy and culture, time and space / Erica Schoenberger -- Networks of ethnicity / Katharyne Mitchell -- Economic geography of global trade / Richard Grant -- Money and finance / Andrew Leyshon -- Political economy of international labor migration / Helga Leitner -- Transportation: hooked on speed, eyeing sustainability / Susan Hanson -- Telecommunications and economic space / Barney Warf -- International political economy / Michael Webber.