The Geographic Mobility Of Labor

Social research report on a survey of aspects of labour mobility in the USA - covers social implications and economic implications of geographic mobility, problems of the Black migrant worker, financial aspects and psychological aspects of migration, area poverty, etc., and includes the text of questionnaires used in the survey. References and statistical tables.

First published in 1990. This edited work brings together a collection of studies, by an international team of contributors, on inter-urban migration, which is largely dominated by labour migration. The structure of the book reflects the interaction of the supply and demand of labour and the information flows that make this possible. The book offers a multi-dimensional analysis of labour migration, including behavioural, economic and institutional approaches. It combines various scales of analysis, including the national scale, the occupational scale and the household scale. The study also examines labour migration in a variety of national contexts. It will be of particular value to professional geographers, economists and sociologists with an interest in the distribution of population and the labour force, planners with responsibility for the development of policy and some final year graduate students.