Handbook of Labour Geography
Edited by Andrew Herod ()
in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing
Abstract:
This illuminating Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the exciting field of labour geography, examining how spatial circumstances shape workers’ lives and behaviour as well as how workers shape landscapes. It explores the history of labour geography, how the field has developed globally and how labour geographers have conceptualised worker agency.
Keywords: Work; Workers; Precarity; Unions; Spatiality; Marxism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781785363399
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Chapters in this book:
- Handbook of Labour Geography: An introduction
- Andrew Herod
- Part I: introduction
- Andrew Herod
- Anglophonic labour geography
- Kendra Strauss
- Labour geography in Eastern Europe
- Márton Czirfusz
- Labour geography in Brazil: territorial fundamentals and dynamics
- Fernando Mendonça Heck, Jane Rosa da Silva and Antonio Thomaz Junior
- Spatiality and terrority in labour studies in the Spanish-speaking world
- Beltrán Roca and Iban Díaz-Parra
- Labour geography emergent?: a brief history of geographical approaches to work and workers in France
- Fabrice Ripoll
- Labour geography in the German-speaking countries: a work in progress
- Michaela Doutch, Tatiana López Ayala, Oliver Pye, Stefanie Hürtgen and Nadine Reis
- Part II: introduction
- Andrew Herod
- The 1911 Singer strike: labour geographies and radical histories
- Paul Griffin
- Scaling the commanding heights of the economy?: a century of mineworkers’ spatial projects in the Peruvian Andes
- Omar Manky
- Maritime labour and contested spaces of agency: seafarers’ and dockers’ struggles for decolonisation and democracy
- David Featherstone
- Panopticons on the piers: the local state's use of spatial strategies to regulate dockers and eliminate crime on the New York/New Jersey waterfront
- Andrew Herod
- Part III: introduction
- Andrew Herod
- The places of labour conflict in twenty-first century capitalism
- Jörg Nowak
- Labour geographies in China: economic transition, worker struggle, and enabling conditions of agency
- Gengzhi Huang
- Part IV: introduction
- Andrew Herod
- Disabling suburbs?: urban sprawl and US union elections, 2010
- Stephen McFarland
- Re-engaging with the state: examining (prospective) links between labour geography and labour inspection
- Thomas Hastings
- Working-class property developers and the right to housing in the Greek city
- Stelios Gialis, Kostas Gourzis and Andrew Herod
- Part V: introduction
- Andrew Herod
- Migration and the spatial fix: geographies of low-waged labour migration to core economies
- Sam Scott and Thomas Sætre Jakobsen
- Labour power materialised: farmworkers and the remaking of agribusiness landscapes
- Don Mitchell
- Negotiating belonging through civic participation: Polish migrant workers in Northern Ireland
- Jenny McCurry
- Labour agency in the Plantationocene: the organising potential of everyday spatial practices
- Oliver Pye
- Part VI: introduction
- Andrew Herod
- The liberation dialectic: control and resistance in the reordering of the mining landscapes in South Africa
- Andries Bezuidenhout, Crispen Chinguno and John Mashayamombe
- Robots, robotic technologies, and labour geographies
- Vincent J. Del Casino and Casey R. Lynch
- Spaces of labour activism: the case of autoworkers’ strikes in south China
- Yunxue Deng
- A matter of choice: fly-in, fly-out labour geographies of work and family
- Robyn Mayes
- Part VII: introduction
- Andrew Herod
- Organising the US service sector in a time of austerity
- Mia Gray
- Hospitality workers and the spaces of the habitual: a discussion on agency and practice
- Kristina Zampoukos
- Organising the care economy: shifting spatial strategies of domestic worker activism
- Nik Theodore and Beth Gutelius
- Gendered labour geographies in the cloud
- Al James
- Part VIII: introduction
- Andrew Herod
- Reversing the race to the bottom in the platform economy: the Fairwork approach
- Adam Badger, Alessio Bertolini, Fabian Ferrari, Mark Graham and Funda Ustek Spilda
- Issues of space and gender in home-based work: a case from Kerala, India
- P. Neethi
- Labouring geography in the current conjuncture: social reproduction, racial capitalism, and world-making praxis
- Hannah Schling and Ben Rogaly
- Part IX: introduction
- Andrew Herod
- The limits of just transition to a green and caring economy
- Steven Tufts
- Organising for the energy transition: labour, energy democracy, and the climate emergency
- Franziska Christina Paul and Andrew Cumbers
- Reading the socio-ecological fix through the lens of labour: the subsumption of nature and labour in British Columbia's forests
- Michael Ekers
- Spatial and place dynamics of labour in extractive industries: challenges for just transitions
- Erik Kojola
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