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Edited by Andrew Herod, Regents’ Professor, Department of Geography, University of Georgia, USA<i>‘The </i>Handbook of Labour Geography<i> 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.’</i>
- Tod Rutherford, Syracuse University, USA,
<i>‘Even in a hyper-digital world, spatial dimensions of work are critical. The editor has brought together authors from across the world to highlight labour geography’s history as well as its significance across global contexts. From Peru’s mineworkers to China’s autoworkers, labour migration to just transition policies, these rich case studies reveal how spatial “fixes” shape capital accumulation and worker agency, offering essential insights for scholars and practitioners within labour, history, and sociology studies.’</i>
- Maite Tapia, Michigan State University, USA,
<i>‘Labour geography is now a burgeoning, cross-disciplinary field of research with all manner of practical implications. This Handbook showcases the richness and breadth of the field. Edited by a field-leader, Andrew Herod, it provides a reliable map both for experienced travellers and those new to the field.’</i>
- Noel Castree, University of Manchester, UK,
<i>‘This Handbook is the definitive, comprehensive, up-to-date, state-of-the-art volume in labour geography in the Anglophonic world. Practitioners in labour and industrial relations, working-class studies, labour history, environmental studies, anthropology, and urban planning will find valuable insights in Herod’s useful introductions and articles that cover myriad temporal and spatial topics such as migration, the state, nature, precarious workers and many more.’</i>
- Lisa M. Fine, Michigan State University, USA,
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.