Sylvi Birgit Endresen

• Zabko, Oksana; Fangen, Katrine & Endresen, Sylvi Birgit (2019). Latvian migrants’ circular or permanent migration to Norway : economic and social factors. Nordic Journal of Migration Research. 9(1), p. 61–79. doi: 10.2478/njmr-2019-0007. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This article analyses migration decisions and labour market manoeuvring of Latvian migrants to Norway, as well as the economic and social conditions that influence their choices. How do they adapt to the labour market in Norway? Do they practise circular migration, or do they aim for more permanent settlement? For some circular migrants, ‘reinforced’ motivation for migration emerges gradually, partly related to differences in working conditions – lower workload, better enforcement of work-safety regulations and opportunities for specialising in their field. Family and networks can influence both return and permanent settlement, depending on whether these are based in the home country or in Norway.

• Zabko, Oksana; Aasland, Aadne & Endresen, Sylvi Birgit (2018). Facilitating labour migration from Latvia: strategies of various categories of intermediaries. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. ISSN 1369-183X. 44(4), p. 575–591. doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2017.1315508. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Within the broad category of migration industries, we focus on intermediaries between employers in Norway requiring migrant labour, and suppliers of Latvian workers willing to migrate. Mediation of labour power is a regulated domain in both countries, but regulations may change: regulations in Latvia have become more lenient, whereas in Norway, they have become stricter in response to increased migration. Intermediaries must be responsive to fluctuations in labour supply and demand, as well as to changing regulations. Today, destination countries are experiencing an overabundance of available migrant labour. This buyer’s labour market represents a challenge for intermediaries, spurring adjustments and side-stepping of regulations. Formal temp agencies are supplemented by informal ones, challenging the conceptualisation of intermediaries. Also work migrants may become agents, shaping new forms of intermediation and expanding the concept of ‘migration industry’ to encompass facilitation of labour migration through social networks. In this article, we construct typologies inductively, establishing categories meaningful in the complex context of labour migration from Latvia to Norway. We distinguish between mediation through formal versus informal agencies, establish characteristics of agencies versus individual social network-based mediation and discuss mediation through the posting of workers by companies.

• Juuse, Egert; Endresen, Sylvi Birgit & Kattel, Rainer (2015). Twenty years of restructuring in the Estonian food retail industry – the interplay of the political economy of Estonia and institutional, historical and geographical factors. In Micek, G (Eds.), Understanding innovation in emerging economic epaces. Global and local actors, networks and embeddedness.. Ashgate. ISSN 9781472410337. Full text in Research Archive
• Juuse, Egert; Endresen, Sylvi Birgit & Kattel, Rainer (2015). Foreign direct investment in Estonia – understanding the impact of public policies on local embeddedness and networking in the food retail and related industries. In Micek, G (Eds.), Understanding innovation in emerging economic epaces. Global and local actors, networks and embeddedness.. Ashgate. ISSN 9781472410337. Full text in Research Archive
• Knutsen, Hege Merete; Endresen, Sylvi Birgit; Bergene, Ann Cecilie & Jordhus-Lier, David Christoffer (2015). Labor, Geography of. In Wright, James D. (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition. Elsevier. ISSN 9780080970868. p. 163–168. Full text in Research Archive
• Dokka, Synne; Knutsen, Hege Merete & Endresen, Sylvi Birgit (2014). Outsourcing with a human face? Variegated workplace regimes in the Norwegian hotel sector. In Jordhus-Lier, David Christoffer & Underthun, Anders (Ed.), A hospitable world?: Organising work and workers in hotels and tourist resorts. Routledge. ISSN 9780415747790. p. 84–100. Full text in Research Archive
• Endresen, Sylvi Birgit & Fasting, Clara M.C. (2012). More than just a production factor: the view of labour in the works of the Norwegian Economist. In Backhaus, Jûrgen Georg (Eds.), The Liberation of the Serfs. The Economics of Unfree Labor. Springer Science+Business Media B.V.. ISSN 9781461400844. p. 43–64. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-0085-1_7. Full text in Research Archive
• Endresen, Sylvi Birgit (2010). "We order 20 bodies" : labour hire and alienation. In Bergene, Ann Cecilie; Endresen, Sylvi Birgit & Knutsen, Hege Merete (Ed.), Missing links in labour geography. Ashgate. ISSN 9780754677987. p. 211–224. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Addressing a number of 'missing links' in the analysis of labour and its geographies, this volume examines how theoretical perspectives on both labour in general and the organizations of the labour movement in particular can be refined and redefined. Issues of agency, power and collective mobilizations are examined and illustrated by a wide range of case studies from the 'global north' and 'global south' in order to develop a better and fuller appreciation of labour market processes in developed and developing countries.

• Magnusson, Ola Anders; Knutsen, Hege Merete & Endresen, Sylvi Birgit (2010). Between coercion and consent : understanding post-apartheid workplace regimes. In Bergene, Ann Cecilie; Endresen, Sylvi Birgit & Knutsen, Hege Merete (Ed.), Missing links in labour geography. Ashgate. ISSN 9780754677987. p. 169–181. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Addressing a number of 'missing links' in the analysis of labour and its geographies, this volume examines how theoretical perspectives on both labour in general and the organizations of the labour movement in particular can be refined and redefined. Issues of agency, power and collective mobilizations are examined and illustrated by a wide range of case studies from the 'global north' and 'global south' in order to develop a better and fuller appreciation of labour market processes in developed and developing countries.

• Bergene, Ann Cecilie; Endresen, Sylvi Birgit & Knutsen, Hege Merete (2010). Re-engaging with agency in labor geography. In Bergene, Ann Cecilie; Endresen, Sylvi Birgit & Knutsen, Hege Merete (Ed.), Missing links in labour geography. Ashgate. ISSN 9780754677987. p. 3–14. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Addressing a number of 'missing links' in the analysis of labour and its geographies, this volume examines how theoretical perspectives on both labour in general and the organizations of the labour movement in particular can be refined and redefined. Issues of agency, power and collective mobilizations are examined and illustrated by a wide range of case studies from the 'global north' and 'global south' in order to develop a better and fuller appreciation of labour market processes in developed and developing countries.

• Bergene, Ann Cecilie; Endresen, Sylvi Birgit & Knutsen, Hege Merete (2010). Approaches to the Social and Spatial Agency of Labour. In Bergene, Ann Cecilie; Endresen, Sylvi Birgit & Knutsen, Hege Merete (Ed.), Missing links in labour geography. Ashgate. ISSN 9780754677987. p. 227–240. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Addressing a number of 'missing links' in the analysis of labour and its geographies, this volume examines how theoretical perspectives on both labour in general and the organizations of the labour movement in particular can be refined and redefined. Issues of agency, power and collective mobilizations are examined and illustrated by a wide range of case studies from the 'global north' and 'global south' in order to develop a better and fuller appreciation of labour market processes in developed and developing countries.

• Endresen, Sylvi Birgit & Bergene, Ann Cecilie (2006). Labour Standards and the Question of Industrialisation Strategy. An African Example. In Jauch, Herbert & Traub-Merz, Rudolf (Ed.), The Future of the Textile and Clothing Industry in Sub-Saharan Africa. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. ISSN 9783898924979. p. 80–96. Full text in Research Archive
• Endresen, Sylvi Birgit (1995). Why development geographers need theories of Third World development. A production system approach, Development in the South: Issues and Debates. Contributions by Human and Physical Geography. Full text in Research Archive
• Endresen, Sylvi Birgit & Bergstø, Brita (1992). From North to South: A locational shift in industrial pollution. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0029-1951. 46(4). Full text in Research Archive
• Endresen, Sylvi Birgit (1989). The "Work History Method": Reconstruction of Technological Change. Maapallo. ISSN 0357-8585. 10(3). Full text in Research Archive
• Endresen, Sylvi Birgit (1988). Reconstruction of "technological pasts": An appraisal of the "work history" method. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0029-1951. 42, p. 93–101. Full text in Research Archive
• Endresen, Sylvi Birgit (1987). Technological retardation, a neglected field of study? Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0029-1951. 41, p. 1–10. Full text in Research Archive
• Hesselberg, Jan & Endresen, Sylvi Birgit (1987). The concept of "appropriate technology" and development in the Third World. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0029-1951. 41, p. 151–154. Full text in Research Archive

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• Bergene, Ann Cecilie; Endresen, Sylvi Birgit & Knutsen, Hege Merete (2010). Missing links in labour geography. Ashgate. ISBN 9780754677987. 246 p. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Addressing a number of 'missing links' in the analysis of labour and its geographies, this volume examines how theoretical perspectives on both labour in general and the organizations of the labour movement in particular can be refined and redefined. Issues of agency, power and collective mobilizations are examined and illustrated by a wide range of case studies from the 'global north' and 'global south' in order to develop a better and fuller appreciation of labour market processes in developed and developing countries.

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• Daugstad, Karoline; Fold, N & Endresen, Sylvi Birgit (2013). Ren idyll? Forbrukets betydning for bygdeutvikling med utgangspunkt i lokal mat og hytteliv. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0029-1951. 67(1), p. 55–56. doi: 10.1080/00291951.2012.759618. Full text in Research Archive
• Fasting, Clara Mathilde Christiansen & Endresen, Sylvi Birgit (2010). Torkel Aschehoug: Seeing workers as more than just a production factor? Full text in Research Archive
• Endresen, Sylvi Birgit (2009). Technological Retrogression. Full text in Research Archive
• Endresen, Sylvi Birgit (2009). Accumulation, flexibility and control. Labour hire and accumulation by dispossession. Full text in Research Archive
• Endresen, Sylvi Birgit (2009). Labour in Torkel H. Aschehoug's 'Socialøkonomik': Production factor versus social agent. Full text in Research Archive
• Endresen, Sylvi Birgit (2008). "We order 20 bodies." Labour hire and alienation. Full text in Research Archive
• Endresen, Sylvi Birgit (2007). Doors Wide Open, Eyes Wide Shut: Foreign Direct Investment in Retail in Namibia. Full text in Research Archive
• Bergene, Ann Cecilie & Endresen, Sylvi Birgit (2005). Accumulation by dispossession in African textile and garment manufacturing: Turning workers into scapegoats? The case of Ramatex, Namibia. Full text in Research Archive
• Endresen, Sylvi Birgit & Jauch, Herbert (1999). Namibian Export Processing Zones: A story of success? International Labour Resource and Information Group. ILRIG Working Paper, Cape Town. Full text in Research Archive
• Endresen, Sylvi Birgit & Knutsen, Hege Merete (1996). Klassisk eller ny arbeidsdeling? Hvor hender det?. ISSN 0801-9509. Full text in Research Archive
• Jerve, Alf Morten; Endresen, Sylvi Birgit; Gamage, D & Karunanayake, M.M (2003). Sustaining local level development: What worked and what did not. Lessons from the phasing out of Norwegian aid to the Hambantota Integrated Rural Development Programme. Report 2003:2 (HIRDEP), Sri Lanka, 1992 to 1999. Chr. Michelsen Institute,. Full text in Research Archive
• Endresen, Sylvi Birgit & Pettersen, Silje Wessel (2003). Bush Encroachment in Namibia. A study of commercial farms. Occasional Paper #38, Samfunnsgeografi. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive
• Endresen, Sylvi Birgit & Johnsen, Jahn Petter (2002). "If you accept things the way they are, you make peace with the world." Review-cum-appraisal of NORAD support to UNAM B.Sc. Fisheries Programme (NAM 015). Report 9/02. Centre for Rural Research. Full text in Research Archive
• Endresen, Sylvi Birgit & Jauch, Herbert (2001). Export Processing Zones in Namibia: Taking a closer look. 2nd Edition. Labour Resource and Research Institute, Windhoek, Namibia.. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Rapporten er en empirisk analyse av erfaringene med Namibias fem år gamle eksport-produksjonssone. Bedriftsetableringene, deres omfang og produksjon analyseres på bakgrunn av den uttalte strategien. Sentralt i analysen står arbeidsforholdene for de ansatte, og diskusjonen om unntaket fra Labour Act bør fortsette etter prøveperioden.

• Jauch, Herbert & Endresen, Sylvi Birgit (2000). Labour Hire in Namibia: New flexibility or a new form of slavery? Labour Resource and Research Institute. Full text in Research Archive
• Bergstø, B.; Endresen, Sylvi Birgit & Knutsen, Hege Merete (1998). "Source and hide pollution". Industrial organisation, location and the environment: sourcing as a firm strategy. Institutt for sosiologi og samfunnsgeografi. Full text in Research Archive
• Endresen, Sylvi Birgit (1994). Modernisation Reversed? Technological Change in Four Asian Fishing Villages. Dissertation for the Dr. Philos. Degree. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive
• Endresen, Sylvi Birgit (1993). Teknologi. Sentrale problemstillinger i debatten om teknologi of utvikling i den tredje verden. Samfunnsgeografi, Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive
• Endresen, Sylvi Birgit (1990). "Teknologiutvikling og Internasjonal Lokalisering av Forurensende Industri". Full text in Research Archive Show summary

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• Endresen, Sylvi Birgit (1985). Technological change and level of living. A study of two fishing villages in Southern Sri Lanka. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive

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