 Social life, conducted within economic, political and cultural boundaries, is fundamentally spatial.
Adopting an explicitly geographical perspective, Organizing the Landscape shows that labor unionism, no less than any other social practice, is spatial in nature as well.
The essays in this book take up two primary questions: what is the relationship between workers’ and unions’ social practices and the making of the geography of capitalism? And, how does spatial sensitivity contribute to an understanding of workers’ and unions’ social behavior?
The authors address these questions in a variety of contexts including 1920s California, 1930s Massachusetts, 1940s Japan and contemporary Eastern Europe.
An essay by editor Andrew Herod, associate professor of geography at UGA, offers a comprehensive review of work done in geography relating to the spatiality of labor unionism.
“With this book, and others to follow, one can hope for a revivified radical geography and political economy of place,” writes Richard A. Walker in the book’s foreword. “And that just might help make a difference in the struggles of working people for a better life in a hard world of hard work.”
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