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.

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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