Labour geography emergent?: a brief history of geographical approaches to work and workers in France

Fabrice Ripoll

Chapter 5 in Handbook of Labour Geography, 2025, pp 113-127 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter provides a few points of reference on the history of approaches to work and workers in French Geography. There is no French equivalent to Anglophonic-style ‘Labour Geography’ in the sense of a research field that is thus labelled, clearly identified, and collectively advanced. Nevertheless, there has been a multitude of reflections that have addressed questions of work and workers. These have studied work as a productive activity in the broad sense and workers as producers of landscapes. They have seen work as the product of a technical and social division of labour that gives rise to a diversity of spatially-differentiated socio-professional categories or groups at all scales, but also as a social relationship involving exploitation, domination, and struggles involving workers as collective actors or even as part of a social movement.

Keywords: French geography, History of geography, Social geography, Working class; labour unionism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781785363399
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