Labour geography in Brazil: territorial fundamentals and dynamics

Fernando Mendonça Heck, Jane Rosa da Silva and Antonio Thomaz Junior

Chapter 3 in Handbook of Labour Geography, 2025, pp 87-99 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter details the development of Labour Geography in Brazil as a product of collective work conducted within the CEGeT (Centro de Estudos de Geografia do Trabalho – the Centre for the Study of the Geography of Labour) network of researchers. It focusses upon the historical context in which Brazilian Labour Geography emerged, one marked by the critical renewal of Geography from the 1980s onwards that was itself influenced by the rise of mass movements in the country (worker, peasant, feminist, etc.) and ongoing class struggles and territorial conflicts, developments which the Geography of the time could no longer ignore. The chapter outlines Brazilian Labour Geography's main theoretical contributions since the 1990s, including the adoption of the historical and dialectical materialist method, as well as the development of new concepts concerning things such as the plasticity of work, work's territorial reorganisation, and the systemic degradation of work in Brazil in recent years.

Keywords: Territory; Labour; Geography; Class struggle (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781785363399
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