Part VI: introduction

Andrew Herod

A chapter in Handbook of Labour Geography, 2025, pp 343-349 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: These chapters focus on workers in the industrial sector. The first chapter explores the spatial politics of mining in South Africa, specifically how mining capital has used space to control miners and how, in turn, miners have reworked spaces to resist such efforts. The second chapter examines the impact of robotics and automation upon manufacturing and what this means for issues of worker agency and how it is conceptualised. The next chapter investigates Chinese autoworkers’ efforts to improve their situations and how they have developed various spatial strategies within the context of an authoritarian state. Finally, the last chapter shows how the growth of FIFO/ Fly-In, Fly-Out mining schemes in Australia is reshaping miners’ domestic lives and what this means for gender relations in their families.

Keywords: Apartheid; National Union of Mineworkers; Mining compounds; Influx control; Artificial Intelligence; Siri; Alexa; Guangzhou; Chinese autoworkers; Sitdown strikes; Pilbara; Parenting stress; Iron ore; Patriarchy; Reproductive sphere (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781785363399
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