Journal articles
Honeybun-Arnolda E, Turner RA, Mukhopadhyay R, Collins C, Wills J (2024). Localising and democratising goal-based governance for sustainability. Environmental Science & Policy, 151, 103638-103638.
Wills J (2024). The extraordinary task of crafting a more ‘ordinary’ geography: Post-vanguardism and the art of not-knowing best.
Dialogues in Human Geography Abstract.
Wills J (2023). Bridging the gaps between demos and kratos: broad-based community organising and political institutional infrastructure in London, UK. City, 27(5-6), 890-904.
Turner RA, Wills J (2022). Downscaling doughnut economics for sustainability governance.
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability,
56 Abstract.
Collins C, Shaw RF, Wills J (2022). Using place-based public engagement to improve social and environmental sustainability: Lessons from partnership working in Cornwall, UK.
Current Research in Environmental Sustainability,
4 Abstract.
Clements J, Lobley M, Osborne J, Wills J (2021). How can academic research on UK agri-environment schemes pivot to meet the addition of climate mitigation aims?. Land Use Policy, 106, 105441-105441.
Chateau Z, Devine-Wright P, Wills J (2021). Integrating sociotechnical and spatial imaginaries in researching energy futures.
Energy Research and Social Science,
80 Abstract.
Kinsley S, Layton J, Davis J, Wills J, Featherstone D, Temenos C, Barnett C (2020). Reading Clive Barnett's the Priority of Injustice. Political Geography, 78, 102065-102065.
Greenhough B, Read CJ, Lorimer J, Lezaun J, McLeod C, Benezra A, Bloomfield S, Brown T, Clinch M, D’Acquisto F, et al (2020). Setting the agenda for social science research on the human microbiome.
Palgrave Communications,
6(1).
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Wills J (2020). The geo-constitution and responses to austerity: Institutional entrepreneurship, switching, and re-scaling in the United Kingdom.
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers Abstract.
Wills J (2019). The geo-constitution: Understanding the intersection of geography and political institutions.
Progress in Human Geography,
43(3), 416-435.
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Wills J, Scott J (2017). The geography of the political party: Lessons from the British Labour Party’s experiment with community organising, 2010 to 2015. Political Geography, 60, 121-131.
Wills J (2016). (Re)Locating community in relationships: questions for public policy. Sociological Review, 64, 639-656.
Wills J (2016). Book Review: Global political economy: Contemporary theories. Progress in Human Geography, 26(5), 703-704.
Wills J (2016). Book Review: Globalization and labour: the great new transformation. Progress in Human Geography, 27(2), 244-245.
Wills J (2016). Book Review: the political economy of New Labour: labouring under false pretences?. Progress in Human Geography, 25(4), 677-678.
Wills J, Simms M (2016). Building reciprocal community unionism in the UK.
Capital & Class,
28(1), 59-84.
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Harney L, McCurry J, Scott J, Wills J (2016). Developing ‘process pragmatism’ to underpin engaged research in human geography.
Progress in Human Geography,
40(3), 316-333.
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Wills J (2016). Emerging geographies of English localism: the case of neighbourhood planning. Political Geography, 53, 43-53.
Wills J, Lincoln A (2016). Filling the Vacuum in New Management Practice? Lessons from US Employee-Owned Firms.
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space,
31(8), 1497-1512.
Abstract.
Wills J (2016). Great Expectations: Three Years in the Life of a European Works Council.
European Journal of Industrial Relations,
6(1), 85-107.
Abstract.
Wills J (2016). Political economy I: global crisis, learning and labour. Progress in Human Geography, 23(3), 443-451.
Wills J (2016). Political economy II: the politics and geography of capitalism. Progress in Human Geography, 24(4), 641-652.
Linneker B, Wills J (2016). The London living wage and in-work poverty reduction: Impacts on employers and workers.
Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy,
34(5), 759-776.
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Wills J (2015). Populism, localism and the geography of democracy. Geoforum, 62, 188-189.
Flint E, Cummins S, Wills J (2013). Investigating the effect of the London living wage on the psychological wellbeing of low-wage service sector employees: a feasibility study. Journal of Public Health, 36(2), 187-193.
Wills J, Linneker B (2013). In‐work poverty and the living wage in the United Kingdom: a geographical perspective.
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers,
39(2), 182-194.
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Wills J (2013). London’s Olympics in 2012: the good, the bad and an organising opportunity. Political Geography, 34, A1-A3.
Datta K, Cathy McIlwaine, May J, Wills J (2012). Migrants and migration: Academic research in the UK. Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, 20(1), 103-105.
Wills J (2012). The geography of community and political organisation in London today.
Political Geography,
31(2), 114-126.
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Datta K, McLlwaine C, Evans Y, Herbert J, May J, Wills J (2010). A migrant ethic of care? Negotiating care andcaring among migrant workers in london’slow-oav economy.
Feminist Review,
94(1), 93-116.
Abstract.
Wills J (2010). Academic agents for change. City, 14(6), 616-618.
May J, Wills J, Datta K, Evans Y, Herbertand J, McIlwaine C (2010). Global Cities at Work: Migrant Labour in Low-Paid Employment in London. London Journal, 35(1), 85-99.
Rantisi NM (2009). <i>Threads of Labour: Garment Industry Supply Chains from the Workers Perspective</i>. Edited by Angela Hale and Jane Wills. Economic Geography, 83(2), 205-206.
Datta K, McIlwaine C, Herbert J, Evans Y, May J, Wills J (2009). Men on the move: Narratives of migration and work among low-paid migrant men in London.
Social and Cultural Geography,
10(8), 853-873.
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Wills J, Datta K, Evans Y, Herbert J, May J, McIlwaine C (2009). Religion at work: the role of faith-based organizations in the London living wage campaign. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2(3), 443-461.
WILLS J (2008). Making Class Politics Possible: Organizing Contract Cleaners in London.
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research,
32(2), 305-323.
Abstract.
Wills J (2008). Mapping Class and its Political Possibilities. Antipode, 40(1), 25-30.
Herbert J, May J, Wills J, Datta K, Evans Y, McIlwaine C (2008). Multicultural Living?.
European Urban and Regional Studies,
15(2), 103-117.
Abstract.
Wills J (2008). Subcontracted Employment and its Challenge to Labor.
Labor Studies Journal,
34(4), 441-460.
Abstract.
Wills J (2008). Taking on the CosmoCorps? Experiments in Transnational Labor Organization.
Economic Geography,
74(2), 111-130.
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Evans Y, Wills J, Datta K, Herbert J, McIlwaine C, May J (2007). 'Subcontracting by Stealth' in London's Hotels: Impacts and Implications for Labour Organising. Just Labour
Datta K, McIlwaine C, Evans Y, Herbert J, May J, Wills J (2007). From Coping Strategies to Tactics: London's Low‐Pay Economy and Migrant Labour.
British Journal of Industrial Relations,
45(2), 404-432.
Abstract.
May J, Wills J, Datta K, Evans Y, Herbert J, McIlwaine C (2007). Keeping London working: global cities, the British state and London's new migrant division of labour.
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers,
32(2), 151-167.
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Datta K, McIlwaine C, Wills J, Evans Y, Herbert J, May J (2007). The new development finance or exploiting migrant labour? Remittance sending among low-paid migrant workers in London.
International Development Planning Review,
29(1), 43-67.
Abstract.
HALE A, WILLS J (2007). Women Working Worldwide: transnational networks, corporate social responsibility and action research.
Global Networks,
7(4), 453-476.
Abstract.
Wills J (2006). European Works Councils in British firms. Human Resource Management Journal, 9(4), 19-38.
Wills J (2006). Geographies of Trade Unionism: Translating Traditions Across Space and Time.
Antipode,
28(4), 352-378.
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Martin R, Sunley P, Wills J (2006). UNIONS AND THE POLITICS OF DEINDUSTRIALIZATION: SOME COMMENTS ON HOW GEOGRAPHY COMPLICATES CLASS ANALYSIS. Antipode, 26(1), 59-76.
Wills J (2006). What's left? the left, its crisis and rehabilitation. Antipode, 38(5), 907-915.
Wills J (2005). The Geography of Union Organising in Low‐Paid Service Industries in the UK: Lessons from the T&G's Campaign to Unionise the Dorchester Hotel, London.
Antipode,
37(1), 139-159.
Abstract.
Wills J (2004). A Stake in Place? the Geography of Employee Ownership and its Implications for a Stakeholding Society.
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers,
23(1), 79-94.
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Savage L, Wills J (2004). New geographies of trade unionism. Geoforum, 35(1), 5-7.
Wills J (2004). Trade unionism and partnership in practice: evidence from the Barclays–Unifi agreement. Industrial Relations Journal, 35(4), 329-343.
Wills J (2002). Bargaining for the space to organize in the global economy: a review of the Accor-IUF trade union rights agreement. Review of International Political Economy, 9(4), 675-700.
Wills J (2002). Community unionism and trade union renewal in the UK: moving beyond the fragments at last?.
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers,
26(4), 465-483.
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Hodkinson S (2002). Place, Space and the New Labour Internationalismsedited by Peter Waterman and Jane Wills, Oxford: Blackwell, 2001, 300 pp. ISBN 0-631-22983-3. Relations industrielles, 57(4), 796-796.
Wills J (2002). Political economy III: Neoliberal chickens, Seattle and geography. Progress in Human Geography, 26(1), 90-100.
Wills J, Peck J (2002). Progress or Retreat? <i>Antipode</i> and the Radical Geographical Project. Antipode, 34(4), 667-671.
Waterman P, Wills J (2002). Space, Place and the New Labour Internationalisms: Beyond the Fragments?. Antipode, 33(3), 305-311.
Wills J (2002). Uneven Geographies of Capital and Labour: the Lessons of European Works Councils.
Antipode,
33(3), 484-509.
Abstract.
Wills J (1999). Political economy I: global crisis, learning and labour. Progress in Human Geography, 23(3), 443-451.
Wills J (1998). Taking on the CosmoCorps? Experiments in transnational labor organization.
ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY,
74(2), 111-130.
Author URL.
Wills J (1998). Uprooting tradition: Rethinking the place and space of labour organization. European Planning Studies, 6(1), 31-42.
Wills J (1996). Uneven Reserves: Geographies of Banking Trade Unionism. Regional Studies, 30(4), 359-372.
Martin R, Sunley P, Wills J (1994). Local Industrial Politics. Employee Relations, 16(2), 84-99.
Martin R, Sunley P, Wills J (1994). The Decentralization of Industrial Relations? New Institutional Spaces and the Role of Local Context in British Engineering. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 19(4), 457-457.
Martin R, Sunley P, Wills J (1993). The Decentralisation of Industrial Politics? the Role of Regional Context in the Reshaping of Trade Unionism within British Engineering.
Management Research News,
16(5/6), 2-2.
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Chapters
Wills J, Lake RW (2020). Introduction: the power of pragmatism. In (Ed)
The power of pragmatism: Knowledge production and social inquiry, Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 3-54.
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Harney L, Wills J (2020). Reflections on an Experiment in Pragmatic Social Research and Knowledge Production. In (Ed)
The power of pragmatism: Knowledge production and social inquiry, Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 176-194.
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Wills J (2019). Organising. In the Antipode Editorial Collective (Ed)
Keywords in Radical Geography: Antipode at 50, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 202-206.
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Wills J (2018). Faith in action: Lessons from Citizens UK’s work in east London. In Pemberton C (Ed) Theology and civil society, Routledge, 19-44.
Wills J, Horton A (2018). Impacts of the living wage on in-work poverty. In Lohmann H, Marx I (Eds.) Handbook of research on in-work poverty, Edward Elgar.
Wills J (2017). Living Wage. In (Ed) International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology, Wiley, 1-2.
Wills J (2017). Migrant Division of Labor. In (Ed) International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology, Wiley, 1-2.
Lee R, Wills J (2014). Concluding reflections on geographies of economies. In (Ed) Geographies of Economies, 357-358.
Wills J (2014). Engaging. In Lee R (Ed) Sage handbook of progress in human geography, 367-384.
(2013). Globalization and protest Jane Wills. In (Ed) Introducing Human Geographies, Routledge, 585-599.
Wills J (2013). Organising in the global economy: the accor IUF trade union rights agreement. In (Ed) European Works Councils: Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will?, 211-223.
Wills J (2012). Place and Politics. In (Ed) Spatial Politics: Essays for Doreen Massey, 133-145.
Wills J (2012). Uneven Geographies of Capital and Labour: the Lessons of European Works Councils. In (Ed) Place, Space and the New Labour Internationalisms, Wiley, 180-205.
Datta K, McIlwaine C, Herbert J, Evans Y, May J, Wills J (2011). Chapter 35: Global Workers for Global Cities: Low Paid Migrant Labour in London. In (Ed) International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities, Edward Elgar Publishing.
Datta K, McIlwaine C, Herbert J, Evans Y, May J, Wills J (2011). Global workers for global cities: Low paid migrant labour in London. In (Ed) International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities, 390-397.
Wills J, Datta K, May J, McIlwaine C, Evans Y, Herbert J (2010). (Im)migration, local, regional and uneven development. In (Ed) Handbook of Local and Regional Development, 449-459.
Wills J, McIlwaine C, Datta K, May J, Herbert J, Evans Y (2010). New migrant divisions of labour. In (Ed) The Economic Geography of the UK, 225-238.
Anderson J, Hamilton P, Wills J (2010). The multi-scalarity of trade union practice. In (Ed) Handbook of Employment and Society: Working Space, 383-397.
Wills J, Hurley J (2008). Action Research: Tracing the Threads of Labour in the Global Garment Industry. In (Ed) Threads of Labour: Garment Industry Supply Chains from the Workers' Perspective, 69-94.
Hale A, Wills J (2008). Conclusion. In (Ed) Threads of Labour: Garment Industry Supply Chains from the Workers' Perspective, 234-239.
Wills J, Hale A (2008). Threads of Labour in the Global Garment Industry. In (Ed) Threads of Labour: Garment Industry Supply Chains from the Workers' Perspective, 1-15.
Wills J (2007). The place of personal politics. In (Ed) Politics and Practice in Economic Geography, 131-140.
Wills J (2003). Organizing in transport and travel: Learning lessons from TSSAs Seacat campaign. In (Ed)
Union Organizing: Campaigning for Trade Union Recognition, 133-152.
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Wills J, Lee R (1997). Introduction. In (Ed) Geographies of Economies, Routledge, xv-xviii.