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Global Production Networks and Resources in Western Australia

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Resource Curse or Cure ?

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This chapter draws on the literature on global production networks and spatiality to examine the development of Western Australia and its relationship with the resource sector, with an emphasis on institutional capture, the dynamics of regional development dominated by large external capital, and a contested notion of place.

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    Some things do change. In 1982, Kwinana was being touted as a possible saviour in the face of dominant global corporations. By 2012, high youth unemployment, declining apprenticeships and exclusion from lucrative large contracts had doomed the area to ‘problem’ rather than ‘saviour’ status.

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  1. Graduate School of Business, Curtin University, Bentley, WA, Australia

    Al Rainnie & Scott Fitzgerald

  2. Business School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Bradon Ellem

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  1. Institute for Social Sustainability, Murdoch University, Perth, West Australia, Australia

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  2. Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, West Australia, Australia

    Angela Durey

  3. John Curtin Inst. of Public Policy, Curtin University, Perth, West Australia, Australia

    Robyn Mayes

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Rainnie, A., Fitzgerald, S., Ellem, B. (2014). Global Production Networks and Resources in Western Australia. In: Brueckner, M., Durey, A., Mayes, R., Pforr, C. (eds) Resource Curse or Cure ?. CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-53873-5_6

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