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Life on the edge: navigating the competitive tensions between the 'social' and the 'economic' in the social economy and in its relations to the mainstream (2009)
Journal Article
Hudson, R. (2009). Life on the edge: navigating the competitive tensions between the 'social' and the 'economic' in the social economy and in its relations to the mainstream. Journal of Economic Geography, 9(4), 493-510. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbp005

Drawing on detailed empirical research in the UK, in this article I explore the motivations that lie behind the formation of social economy organisations (SEOs) and the multiple trajectories that these can then follow and the tensions to which this c... Read More about Life on the edge: navigating the competitive tensions between the 'social' and the 'economic' in the social economy and in its relations to the mainstream.

The costs of globalization: Producing new forms of risk to health and well-being (2009)
Book Chapter
Hudson, R. (2009). The costs of globalization: Producing new forms of risk to health and well-being. . Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/rm.2008.13

Processes of contemporary globalization generate a particular landscape of risk. This landscape is shaped by the economic imperatives that lead to the export of hazardous activities, processes and materials in combination with the uneven regulatory s... Read More about The costs of globalization: Producing new forms of risk to health and well-being.

Economic Geography: Fordism (2009)
Book Chapter
Hudson, R. (2009). Economic Geography: Fordism. In N. Thrift, & R. Kitchin (Eds.), International encyclopaedia of human geography (226-231). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-008044910-4.00166-8

The term ‘Fordism’ has many meanings. It originated as a description of the radical new way of organising the mass production of automobiles developed by Henry Ford in the early years of the twentieth century. Later it became used to describe a parti... Read More about Economic Geography: Fordism.

Regional Development: Uneven Regional Development (2009)
Book Chapter
Hudson, R. (2009). Regional Development: Uneven Regional Development. In N. Thrift, & R. Kitchin (Eds.), International encyclopaedia of human geography (18-23). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-008044910-4.00884-1

The concept of uneven development originally developed within Marxian political economy to describe – inter alia – relations between political classes, between the forces and relations of production, and between companies. Subsequently, it became gen... Read More about Regional Development: Uneven Regional Development.