Handbook of labour geography / edited by Andrew Herod (Regents' Professor, Department of Geography, University of Georgia, USA).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Herod, Andrew, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic geography.

Labor economics.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (594 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025.

Summary:

"This illuminating Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the exciting field of labour geography, examining how spatial circumstances shape workers' lives and behaviour as well as how workers shape landscapes. It explores the history of labour geography, how the field has developed globally and how labour geographers have conceptualized worker agency. 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Handbook of labour geography: An Introduction / Andrew Herod

Part I: Geographies of labour geography

Part I: Introduction / Andrew Herod

1. Anglophonic labour geography / Kendra Strauss

2. Labour geography in eastern Europe / Márton Czirfusz

3. Labour geography in brazil: Territorial fundamentals and dynamics / Fernando Mendonça Heck, Jane Rosa da Silva, and Antonio Thomaz Junior

4. Spatiality and terrority in labour studies in the Spanish-speaking world / Beltrán Roca and Iban Díaz-Parra

5. Labour geography emergent?: A brief history of geographical approaches to work and workers in France / Fabrice Ripoll

6. Labour geography in the German-speaking countries: A work in progress / Michaela Doutch, Tatiana López Ayala, Oliver Pye, Stefanie Hürtgen, and Nadine Reis

Part II: Historical labour geographies

Part II: Introduction / Andrew Herod

7. The 1911 Singer Strike: Labour geographies and radical histories / Paul Griffin

8. Scaling the commanding heights of the economy?: A century of mineworkers' spatial projects in the peruvian andes / Omar Manky

9. Maritime labour and contested spaces of agency: Seafarers' and dockers' struggles for decolonisation and democracy / 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 / Andrew Herod

Part III: Geographies of mass labour movements

Part III: Introduction / Andrew Herod

11. The places of labour conflict in twenty-first century capitalism / Jörg Nowak

12. Labour geographies in China: Economic transition, worker struggle, and enabling conditions of agency / Gengzhi Huang

Part IV: Labour and the state

Part IV: Introduction / Andrew Herod

13. Diabling suburbs?: Urban sprawl and US union elections, 2010 / Stephen McFarland

14. Re-engaging with the state: Examining (prospective) links between labour geography and labour inspection / Thomas Hastings

15. Working-class property developers and the right to housing in the Greek city / Stelios Gialis, Konstantinos Gourzis, and Andrew Herod

Part V: Labour geographies of migration

Part V: Introduction / Andrew Herod

16. Migration and the spatial fix: Geographies of low-waged labour migration to core economies / Sam Scott and Thomas Sætre Jakobsen

17. Labour power materialised: Farmworkers and the remaking of agribusiness landscapes / Don Mitchell

18. Negotiating belonging through civic participation: Polish migrant workers in northern Ireland / Jenny McCurry

19. Labour agency in the plantationocene: The organising potential of everyday spatial practices / Oliver Pye

Part VI: Industrial labour geographies

Part VI: Introduction / Andrew Herod

20. The liberation dialectic: Control and resistance in the reordering of the mining landscapes in South Africa / Andries, Bezuidenhout, Crispen Chinguno, and John Mashayamombe

21. Robots, robotic technologies and labour geographies / Vincent J. Del Casino Jr., and Casey Lynch

22. Spaces of labour activism: The case of autoworkers' strikes in south China / Yunxue Deng

23. A matter of choice: Fly-in, fly-out labour geographies of work and family / Robyn Mayes

Part VII: Labour geographies of the service sector

Part VII: Introduction / Andrew Herod

24. Organising the us service sector in a time of austerity / Mia Gray

25. Hospitality workers and the spaces of the habitual: A discussion on agency and practice / Kristina Zampoukos

26. Organising the care economy: Shifting spatial strategies of domestic worker activism / Nik Theodore and Beth Gutelius

27. Gendered labour geographies in the cloud / Al James

Part VIIi: Labour geographies of precarious workers

Part VIIi: Introduction / Andrew Herod

28. Reversing the race to the bottom in the platform economy: The fairwork approach / 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 / Neethi P.

30. Labouring geography in the current conjuncture: Social reproduction, racial capitalism and world-making praxis / Hannah Schling and Ben Rogaly

Part IX: Labour geographies of the environment

Part IX: Introduction / Andrew Herod

31. The limits of just transition to a green and caring economy / Steven Tufts

32. Organising for the energy transition: Labour, energy democracy and the climate emergency / 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 / Michael Ekers

34. Spatial and place dynamics of labour in extractive industries: Challenges for just transitions / Erik Kojola.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781785363405 (e-book)

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Restricted for use by site license.