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GaWC Annual Lecture 2012 - All welcome http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/lecture.html Friday 25 May 2012, 1pm-2pm, Loughborough University Professor Andrew Jones, Birkbeck Globalization, Cities and the Rise of Global Work It is widely understood that globalization has dramatically transformed cities across the planet. However, much of the world city debate has focused on economic and social transformations within cities along with analysis of the nature of connections between them. Despite broad debates about the nature of the ‘space of flows’ and ‘mobilities’, the world city literature has had relatively little to say about how cities are key sites that are shaping the globalization of work itself. In this context, this lecture argues for a theoretical perspective that takes the globalization of work seriously, and which in so doing enables an understanding how in today’s world conventional concepts of work as a form of economic practice, along with its spatiality, require radical reformulation. Using recent research into the nature of international youth volunteering, it examines how the concept of ‘global work’ provides new insight into how globalization has transformed the practices we associate with the term ‘work’, along with the nature of what we might understand to be a workplace and a labour market. It furthermore uses this case of youth voluntary work to examine how the material spaces of world city networks are key influences on the spatiality of globalized work. The lecture will be followed by a postgraduate seminar on ‘Practice and Economic Geography’. Places are limited; please email Dr Sarah Mills ([log in to unmask]) if you wish to attend. -- Michael Hoyler Senior Lecturer in Human Geography Associate Director, Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Research Network Department of Geography Loughborough University Loughborough LE11 3TU UK Tel: +44 (0)1509 222740 Fax: +44 (0)1509 223930 http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/ International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/bookentry_main.lasso?id=13622 Global Urban Analysis http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781849712132/