Part III: introduction

Andrew Herod

A chapter in Handbook of Labour Geography, 2025, pp 207-210 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The two chapters in this part address mass labour movements. The first examines the Kerr and Siegel hypothesis, which argues that high strike rates amongst geographically-concentrated groups of workers reflect their alienation from broader society and the objectionable nature of their jobs. It investigates how workers’ spatial situations can affect the likelihood of them mobilising for action. The second details how different types of labour unrest have emerged in various regions of China in recent years. It questions how Chinese workers are reshaping economic landscapes in the absence of union power, arguing that their ability to do so rests upon three principal factors – the cultures of solidarity they have managed to foster, the articulation outside of the official unions of various forms of association power, and how workers have engaged with the geographical contexts within which they find themselves.

Keywords: Kerr-Siegel hypothesis; Geometries of capitalism; Annihilation of space by time; China; Factory zones; Rural migrants (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781785363399
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