ABSTRACT
Intense globalization and ever-expanding ‘spaces of flows’ that include rapidly growing numbers of people, are increasingly reflected in local labour market dynamics throughout the globe at a range of scales. The local labour markets of metropolitan areas that are among the ‘space of places’ in globalization can be conceptualized – according to Coe and Kelly (2000) – as a ‘network space’ of connections across varying distances, whereby the basic processes of labour production and reproduction are actively shaped by the migration of certain types of labour from, and into, particular localities.
