Handbook of Labour Geography
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78536-339-9 (ISBN)
Leading and emerging scholars illustrate how geographical contexts influence worker activity, including exploring how mass labour movements are adapting to emerging economic landscapes, how industrial and service sector workers are responding to new spatial realities they face, how workers are adapting to and challenging labour market precarity, as well as how workers interact with the environment. Detailed international case studies include examining autoworkers’ strikes in South China, Polish migrant workers’ experiences in Northern Ireland, Australian mineworkers’ struggles and issues of space and gender in home-based work in India. The Handbook also introspectively reflects upon how the transformation of universities due to market pressures is reshaping labour geographers’ research and the spaces in which they work.
Students and scholars of labour economics, employment studies and political and economic geography will greatly benefit from this incisive Handbook. Interdisciplinary in scope, it is also an essential resource for academics in political science, international relations, migration studies and environmental studies.
Edited by Andrew Herod, Regents’ Professor, Department of Geography, University of Georgia, USA
Contents
Handbook of Labour Geography: An introduction 1
Andrew Herod
PART I: GEOGRAPHIES OF LABOUR GEOGRAPHY
Part I: Introduction 51
Andrew Herod
1 Anglophonic labour geography 60
Kendra Strauss
2 Labour geography in Eastern Europe 73
Márton Czirfusz
3 Labour geography in Brazil: territorial fundamentals and dynamics 87
Fernando Mendonça Heck, Jane Rosa da Silva, and Antonio Thomaz Junior
4 Spatiality and terrority in labour studies in the Spanish-speaking world 100
Beltrán Roca and Iban Díaz-Parra
5 Labour geography emergent?: a brief history of geographical approaches to
work and workers in France 113
Fabrice Ripoll
6 Labour geography in the German-speaking countries: a work in progress 128
Michaela Doutch, Tatiana López Ayala, Oliver Pye, Stefanie Hürtgen,
and Nadine Reis
PART II: HISTORICAL LABOUR GEOGRAPHIES
Part II: Introduction 143
Andrew Herod
7 The 1911 Singer strike: labour geographies and radical histories 149
Paul Griffin
8 Scaling the commanding heights of the economy?: a century of
mineworkers’ spatial projects in the Peruvian Andes 163
Omar Manky
9 Maritime labour and contested spaces of agency: seafarers’ and dockers’
struggles for decolonisation and democracy 176
David Featherstone
10 Panopticons on the piers: the local state’s use of spatial strategies to
regulate dockers and eliminate crime on the New York/New Jersey
waterfront 190
Andrew Herod
PART III: GEOGRAPHIES OF MASS LABOUR MOVEMENTS
Part III: Introduction 207
Andrew Herod
11 The places of labour conflict in twenty-first century capitalism 211
Jörg Nowak
12 Labour geographies in China: economic transition, worker struggle, and
enabling conditions of agency 224
Gengzhi Huang
PART IV: LABOUR AND THE STATE
Part IV: Introduction 239
Andrew Herod
13 Diabling suburbs?: urban sprawl and US union elections, 2010 244
Stephen McFarland
14 Re-engaging with the state: examining (prospective) links between labour
geography and labour inspection 257
Thomas Hastings
15 Working-class property developers and the right to housing in the Greek
city 270
Stelios Gialis, Konstantinos Gourzis, and Andrew Herod
PART V: LABOUR GEOGRAPHIES OF MIGRATION
Part V: Introduction 284
Andrew Herod
16 Migration and the spatial fix: geographies of low-waged labour migration
to core economies 290
Sam Scott and Thomas Sætre Jakobsen
17 Labour power materialised: farmworkers and the remaking of agribusiness
landscapes 304
Don Mitchell
18 Negotiating belonging through civic participation: Polish migrant workers
in Northern Ireland 316
Jenny McCurry
19 Labour agency in the Plantationocene: the organising potential of everyday
spatial practices 329
Oliver Pye
PART VI: INDUSTRIAL LABOUR GEOGRAPHIES
Part VI: Introduction 343
Andrew Herod
20 The liberation dialectic: control and resistance in the reordering of the
mining landscapes in South Africa 350
Andries, Bezuidenhout, Crispen Chinguno, and John Mashayamombe
21 Robots, robotic technologies and labour geographies 363
Vincent J. Del Casino Jr., and Casey Lynch
22 Spaces of labour activism: the case of autoworkers’ strikes in south China 376
Yunxue Deng
23 A matter of choice: fly-in, fly-out labour geographies of work and family 388
Robyn Mayes
PART VII: LABOUR GEOGRAPHIES OF THE SERVICE SECTOR
Part VII: Introduction 401
Andrew Herod
24 Organising the US service sector in a time of austerity 408
Mia Gray
25 Hospitality workers and the spaces of the habitual: a discussion on agency
and practice 421
Kristina Zampoukos
26 Organising the care economy: shifting spatial strategies of domestic
worker activism 433
Nik Theodore and Beth Gutelius
27 Gendered labour geographies in the cloud 447
Al James
PART VIII: LABOUR GEOGRAPHIES OF PRECARIOUS WORKERS
Part VIII: Introduction 462
Andrew Herod
28 Reversing the race to the bottom in the platform economy: the Fairwork
approach 468
Adam Badger, Alessio Bertolini, Fabian Ferrari, Mark Graham, and
Funda Ustek Spilda
29 Issues of space and gender in home-based work: a case from Kerala, India 481
Neethi P.
30 Labouring geography in the current conjuncture: social reproduction,
racial capitalism and world-making praxis 494
Hannah Schling and Ben Rogaly
PART IX: LABOUR GEOGRAPHIES OF THE ENVIRONMENT
Part IX: Introduction 508
Andrew Herod
31 The limits of just transition to a green and caring economy 516
Steven Tufts
32 Organising for the energy transition: labour, energy democracy and the
climate emergency 529
Franziska Christina Paul and Andrew Cumbers
33 Reading the socio-ecological fix through the lens of labour: the
subsumption of nature and labour in British Columbia’s forests 542
Michael Ekers
34 Spatial and place dynamics of labour in extractive industries: challenges
for just transitions 555
Erik Kojola
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.08.2025 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Cheltenham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 169 x 244 mm |
| Themenwelt | Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78536-339-5 / 1785363395 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78536-339-9 / 9781785363399 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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