 Understanding the global political economy of work: insights from labor geographyAndrew Herod Chapter 18 in Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work, 2023, pp 232-240 from Edward Elgar Publishing Abstract: Labor Geography focuses upon how workers are embedded in landscapes and how this affects how they engage with the unevenly developed geography of capitalism. It is largely a project of the political left within critical economic geography, most specifically Marxism. At its heart, it seeks to treat working people not as mere pawns of capital and/or simply factors of production but, rather, as sentient geographical agents who have vested interests in ensuring that the geography of capitalism is made in some ways and not in others. With this in mind, the chapter first outlines the historical development of the field of Labor Geography and then explores four aspects of workers’ spatial praxis: 1) how they engage with place; 2) how geography complicates class analysis; 3) how landscapes’ path dependence shapes the possibilities of worker activities; and 4) how workers make new geographical scales of their own political existence and how this can be a central element in their praxis. Keywords: Business and Management; Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:19739_18 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing |
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