Labor Geography

T. D. Rutherford

doi:10.1016/B978-008044910-4.00194-2

Labor Geography

T. D. Rutherford

Department of Geography and the Environment

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Labor geography is a branch of human geography which developed from the mid-1980s onwards. It stresses the agency of labor - principally collective organizations such as unions and communities in shaping the landscape, institutions, and scaling of capitalism. As such, labor geography challenged capital-centric readings of capitalist development which characterized early versions of structural Marxism in human geography in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Since its development it has adopted more eclectic and poststructural CHECK WORD CHOICE readings of the role of labor and has addressed a wide range of issues, including scaling, gender, race and ethnicity, labor-community relations, globalization and internationalism, and new forms of work organization.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	International Encyclopedia of Human Geography
Publisher	Elsevier
Pages	72-78
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9780080449104
ISBN (Print)	9780080449111
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-008044910-4.00194-2
State	Published - Jan 1 2009

Keywords

Community
Essentialism
Internationalism
Lean production
Marxism
Poststructuralism
Spatial division of labor
Spatial fix
Unions

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General Social Sciences

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