Labour geography in the German-speaking countries: a work in progress

Michaela Doutch, Tatiana López Ayala, Oliver Pye, Stefanie Hürtgen and Nadine Reis

Chapter 6 in Handbook of Labour Geography, 2025, pp 128-141 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Labour Geography in Germany emerged from a heterodox mix of disciplines such as industrial sociology, human and economic geography, feminist geography, environmental labour studies, protest and social movement research, and regional studies. Scholars began to develop explicitly spatial approaches to understand and respond to transformations of workplace and industrial relations in the context of transnationalisation and financialisation, the digitalisation of work, the explosion of the platform economy, and new struggles around care work or ecological transformation. A formal and strategic consolidation took place in 2020 with the founding of the ‘Arbeitskreis (AK) Labour Geography’. Since then, the AK has been following a two-fold research agenda focussing on global transformation processes and socio-ecological reproduction and hopes to contribute conceptually to the further development of the field.

Keywords: Labour geography; Feminist labour geography; Environmental labour studies; Transnational organising; Socio-ecological reproduction; Platform economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781785363399
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