Columns:: New book explores labor geography

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Columns::November 12, 2001

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New book explores labor geography

Book cover for Labor Geographies: Workers and the Landscapes of Capitalism

$25 (paper)
Guilford Publications

Discussions of the geographic transformations wrought by capitalism generally treat corporations as the primary agents of spatial change.
News articles report billions of dollars flowing here, factories moving there, venture capitalists opening up new markets, and workers having to “take it or leave it.”
Yet labor, too, is increasingly thinking and acting geographically, whether by struggling to impose national contracts; building regional, national, or international links of solidarity; or engaging in debates over local economic development.
Written by UGA associate professor of geography Andrew Herod, Labor Geographies: Workers and the Landscapes of Capitalism provides a comprehensive introduction to the emerging discipline of labor geography.
Combining innovative theoretical analysis with empirical case studies from around the world, Herod examines the spatial contexts and scales in which workers live, organize and work to address particular economic and political problems.

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