Spatiality and terrority in labour studies in the Spanish-speaking world

Beltrán Roca and Iban Díaz-Parra

Chapter 4 in Handbook of Labour Geography, 2025, pp 100-112 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter examines the evolution of academic research on the spatiality of labour relations and workers’ activities in the Spanish-speaking world. First, it describes the institutionalisation of labour studies in the 1970s and 1980s, which was characterised by a progressive abandonment of purely structuralist perspectives in order to gradually recognise the role of workers’ agency. Second, it explains why interest in the processes of economic restructuring and workers’ union representation grew in the 1980s. Third, the chapter analyses the evolution of labour studies in the Spanish-speaking world from 1990 onwards, focussing on the impact of globalisation, flexible organisation, and the precariousness of the labour market. Finally, it points to several recent publications that suggest a latent tendency towards a spatially-informed study of labour, one enriched by dialogue with other national traditions of labour studies.

Keywords: Labour geography; Sociology of work; Work and employment relations; Spain; Latin America (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781785363399
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