Handbook of Labour Geography

Edited by Andrew Herod, Regents’ Professor, Department of Geography, University of Georgia, USA

‘The Handbook of Labour Geography is a major achievement. No mere recapitulation of the sub-discipline’s history, it is a forward-looking major contribution to labour geography’s pluralistic and on-going development and its critical implications for human geography and pedagogy in an increasingly neo-liberal academy.’

• ContentsHandbook of Labour Geography: An introduction 1Andrew HerodPART I: GEOGRAPHIES OF LABOUR GEOGRAPHYPart I: Introduction 51Andrew Herod1 Anglophonic labour geography 60Kendra Strauss2 Labour geography in Eastern Europe 73Márton Czirfusz3 Labour geography in Brazil: territorial fundamentals and dynamics 87Fernando Mendonça Heck, Jane Rosa da Silva, and Antonio Thomaz Junior4 Spatiality and terrority in labour studies in the Spanish-speaking world 100Beltrán Roca and Iban Díaz-Parra5 Labour geography emergent?: a brief history of geographical approaches towork and workers in France 113Fabrice Ripoll6 Labour geography in the German-speaking countries: a work in progress 128Michaela Doutch, Tatiana López Ayala, Oliver Pye, Stefanie Hürtgen,and Nadine ReisPART II: HISTORICAL LABOUR GEOGRAPHIESPart II: Introduction 143Andrew Herod7 The 1911 Singer strike: labour geographies and radical histories 149Paul Griffin8 Scaling the commanding heights of the economy?: a century ofmineworkers’ spatial projects in the Peruvian Andes 163Omar Manky9 Maritime labour and contested spaces of agency: seafarers’ and dockers’struggles for decolonisation and democracy 176David Featherstone10 Panopticons on the piers: the local state’s use of spatial strategies toregulate dockers and eliminate crime on the New York/New Jerseywaterfront 190Andrew HerodPART III: GEOGRAPHIES OF MASS LABOUR MOVEMENTSPart III: Introduction 207Andrew Herod11 The places of labour conflict in twenty-first century capitalism 211Jörg Nowak12 Labour geographies in China: economic transition, worker struggle, andenabling conditions of agency 224Gengzhi HuangPART IV: LABOUR AND THE STATEPart IV: Introduction 239Andrew Herod13 Diabling suburbs?: urban sprawl and US union elections, 2010 244Stephen McFarland14 Re-engaging with the state: examining (prospective) links between labourgeography and labour inspection 257Thomas Hastings15 Working-class property developers and the right to housing in the Greekcity 270Stelios Gialis, Konstantinos Gourzis, and Andrew HerodPART V: LABOUR GEOGRAPHIES OF MIGRATIONPart V: Introduction 284Andrew Herod16 Migration and the spatial fix: geographies of low-waged labour migrationto core economies 290Sam Scott and Thomas Sætre Jakobsen17 Labour power materialised: farmworkers and the remaking of agribusinesslandscapes 304Don Mitchell18 Negotiating belonging through civic participation: Polish migrant workersin Northern Ireland 316Jenny McCurry19 Labour agency in the Plantationocene: the organising potential of everydayspatial practices 329Oliver PyePART VI: INDUSTRIAL LABOUR GEOGRAPHIESPart VI: Introduction 343Andrew Herod20 The liberation dialectic: control and resistance in the reordering of themining landscapes in South Africa 350Andries, Bezuidenhout, Crispen Chinguno, and John Mashayamombe21 Robots, robotic technologies and labour geographies 363Vincent J. Del Casino Jr., and Casey Lynch22 Spaces of labour activism: the case of autoworkers’ strikes in south China 376Yunxue Deng23 A matter of choice: fly-in, fly-out labour geographies of work and family 388Robyn MayesPART VII: LABOUR GEOGRAPHIES OF THE SERVICE SECTORPart VII: Introduction 401Andrew Herod24 Organising the US service sector in a time of austerity 408Mia Gray25 Hospitality workers and the spaces of the habitual: a discussion on agencyand practice 421Kristina Zampoukos26 Organising the care economy: shifting spatial strategies of domesticworker activism 433Nik Theodore and Beth Gutelius27 Gendered labour geographies in the cloud 447Al JamesPART VIII: LABOUR GEOGRAPHIES OF PRECARIOUS WORKERSPart VIII: Introduction 462Andrew Herod28 Reversing the race to the bottom in the platform economy: the Fairworkapproach 468Adam Badger, Alessio Bertolini, Fabian Ferrari, Mark Graham, andFunda Ustek Spilda29 Issues of space and gender in home-based work: a case from Kerala, India 481Neethi P.30 Labouring geography in the current conjuncture: social reproduction,racial capitalism and world-making praxis 494Hannah Schling and Ben RogalyPART IX: LABOUR GEOGRAPHIES OF THE ENVIRONMENTPart IX: Introduction 508Andrew Herod31 The limits of just transition to a green and caring economy 516Steven Tufts32 Organising for the energy transition: labour, energy democracy and theclimate emergency 529Franziska Christina Paul and Andrew Cumbers33 Reading the socio-ecological fix through the lens of labour: thesubsumption of nature and labour in British Columbia’s forests 542Michael Ekers34 Spatial and place dynamics of labour in extractive industries: challengesfor just transitions 555Erik Kojola