‘Unionising’ the new spaces of the new economy? Alternative labour organising in India’s IT Enabled Services-Business Process Outsourcing industry

This paper explores the lived experiences and aspirational social constructions of call centre work and employment in India’s high profile IT Enabled Services-Business Process Outsourcing (ITES-BPO) industry; the ways in which they differ from those previously documented amongst call centre workers in the Global North (specifically the UK); and the consequences of that geographical reconfiguration of offshored call centre work for the replicability in India of workplace collective bargaining strategies successfully developed in some UK call centres. These issues are analysed using new empirical evidence from a regional survey of 511 non-unionised ITES-BPO workers and 42 in-depth interviews in India’s National Capital Region. Based on this analysis, the paper then discusses the operation, outcomes and ongoing challenges faced by the newly formed ‘Union for ITES Professionals’ (UNITES Pro) in developing an alternative occupational organising model better suited to the particular needs, motivations and preferences of India’s young, mobile, call centre workers. The empirical analysis presented in the paper is located, therefore, within wider debates on the role of geographical context in shaping possibilities for organising white-collar service workers at different ends of global service chains in the new economy.     

The consumption of space: Land, capital and place in the New Zealand wine industry

Geographers have developed a keen interest in the social production of space - in the way meanings and values are ascribed to places as a result of changing social, cultural and political processes. There is a need to explore this approach further, seeing how social and economic values of places are inter-related and how these values are constructed in often deliberate and concerted ways. There is also a need to explore how such values are consumed: how the values in place are traded, appropriated and redistributed, both through the products of places and in land markets. This paper examines the New Zealand wine industry where certain wine regions have been identified and developed in ways which attempt to emphasise their distinctiveness in terms of wine quality and thus enhance the value of the wine produced. Different strategies have been employed in this process of place construction and this reflects the differential role of capital, striving on the one hand to increase the price and marketability of the products of distinctive places but, on the other, careful not to over-inflate land values and thus restrict further expansion. The paper suggests that the issue of consumption of space, involving a complex relationship amongst land, capital and place, is worthy of further exploration.     

云南矿山深部找矿新突破及启示

会泽超大型富锗铅锌矿、澜沧老厂大—超大型银铅多金属矿床和保山金厂河航磁异常深部找矿,先后取得重大突破,推动云南新一轮新、老矿山和磁异常区深部找矿积极性。建议禄丰中兴井125#—元谋甘泉村航磁异常、巧家药山航磁异常与石屏龙潭含多金属铁帽等的深部找矿应及早提上议事日程。     

基于情景分析的天津市滨海新区地面沉降预测

鉴于地面沉降演化的地质系统渐变性特征,从主要致灾因子考虑建立地面沉降数值模型。设计3种地下水开采情景,编译计算机程序预测地下水位动态变化过程中的地面沉降值。至2020年,在最不利、适中和最理想3种情景下天津市滨海新区最大累计沉降量分别达640 mm、520 mm和150mm;全区平均累计沉降量分别达268 mm、177 mm和95 mm。     

淄博市淄川区加强新农村建设的措施及建议

该文总结了淄川区国土资源分局以保护耕地、科学规划、合理用地为指导思想,促进城乡土地规划与土地利用总体规划相衔接,加强农田水利综合治理,加大巡查执法检查力度等一系列工作。分析了在推进新农村建设中遇到的困难和问题,提出了积极争取中央和省级政策支持,用足用活各项现行政策,加大对旧村土地整理的探索实践,结合村庄和集镇用地规划,抓好农村建设用地管理;积极探索土地征收制度改革,动态巡查等相关的措施和方法。     

天津滨海新区地面沉降预测方法研究

利用1985～2008年天津地面沉降监测资料,以水准监测点为基本研究对象,在分析其时间沉降的变化动态基础上,采用分段权函数线性模型提取沉降信息并进行外推预测,展示了天津滨海新区地面沉降现状,编绘了2008年天津滨海新区地面沉降年度沉降分布图和2008～2013年间地面沉降总量的预测分布图研究成果可供政府及有关部门制定和实施控沉管理决策参考,同时对存在类似问题的区域也有一定的参考价值。     

纽约时尚产业的空间组织演化及其动力机制

时尚产业作为后工业时代城市发展的新方向而备受瞩目。纽约是公认的全球时尚之都之一,在多方力量的共同推动下,从最初的"血汗工厂"发展至今,其中的经验值得借鉴和学习。产业的发展伴随其空间组织的演化,最终影响城市结构形态。本文对纽约时尚产业经历的四个发展阶段:成衣兴起阶段、产业集聚阶段、设计显露阶段、时尚进化阶段的产业形态和空间组织进行了归纳,并从政府、行业协会、企业和个人四个行为主体出发,探讨了这一过程的动力机制。最后还对中国城市的时尚产业发展提供了政策建议。     

“门票新政”下凤凰古城利益格局及治理路径

凤凰古城“门票新政”是中国古城镇市场化运作中的公共事件.“门票新政”给旅游地带来新的利益格局：凤凰县政府和景区公司成最大受益者;获得政策支持的民族村寨及旅游景区旅游经济稳固提升;灰色涉旅人群逐步取得公平收益;古城涉旅商户经营收益略降;古城周边未获得政策支持的民族村寨及景区旅游发展缓慢,个别景区停业;不购票倾向游客利益受损;社区普通居民和购票倾向游客利益影响甚微.对“门票新政”下的利益格局进行合理性分析,进而探索出凤凰古城治理的3条路径：（1）规范政府行为,提升“门票新政”政策认同感;（2）建立共容利益协调机制,促进古城可持续发展;（3）引入第四方监督机构,约束监管“凤凰新政”.     

马来半岛地区New Discovery金矿地球化学特征及意义

本文对马来半岛中央金成矿带北段的New Discovery金矿地球化学特征进行了分析。主要得出:主量元素特征表明该矿床火山碎屑岩为钙碱性铝过饱和系列岩石。微量元素表明可将13种元素分成4个组合:Cr、Co、Cu、Sc、W、Ba;Pb、Ag、Zn;Sb、Ni;Bi、Mo。第一组合为成矿成晕组合,第二组合为多金属矿化组合,第三组合为硫化物蚀变组合;元素组合也对应于不同的矿化阶段。稀土元素分析结果表明,该岩石属轻稀土富集型,铕弱负异常。稀土配分曲线为平缓的右倾。New Discovery金矿床的原岩为中性火山岩,且形成于岛弧——活动大陆边缘区域。     

中国近海蟹守螺科(Cerithiidae)两新纪录种及常见种名修订

在系统整理研究中国科学院海洋研究所历年来在中国近海采集的蟹守螺科标本时,鉴定出属于蟹守螺属(Cerithium)的中国两新记录种,分别是:阶梯蟹守螺Cerithium novaehollandiae Adams in Swoerby,1855和锉形蟹守螺Cerithium scobiniforme Houbrick,1992。两新记录种分布于中国海南省沿海,栖息于潮间带至浅海的岩礁、砂或石砾质海底。文中对两新记录种的外部形态、软体部、厣特征和习性及地理分布等方面进行了论述,并与相似种进行了比较。且对中国近海蟹守螺科一些常见种名进行了修订。