Abstract
The chapter presents a sympathetic overview of labour geography in its various and evolving forms. This has mapped the shifting politics of production, together with old and new forms of labour organization; it has problematized the workplace, as a site of struggle and as an arena for the performance of social identities; it has tracked the restructuring of labour markets, as spaces of socio-institutional stress and regulatory transformation; and it has deployed labour as a diagnostic for understanding different (local) varieties of capitalism, economies of care and reproduction, and alternative modes of socio-economic organization. The field has consequently been shaped by an accumulating array of concerns with (industrial) restructuring, (labour) regulation, (union) reorganization, and (social) reproduction.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The New Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography |
Editors | Gordon L. Clark, Maryann P. Feldman, Meric S. Gertler, Dariusz Wojcik |
Place of Publication | U.K. |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 465-484 |
Number of pages | 20 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780198755609 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2018 |