Labor Geographies: Workers and the Landscapes of Capitalism

By Jamie Peck. 2003

185 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Political Science and International Relations, Public Administration

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In General Health Professions

1. A. Veen
2. T. Barratt
3. Caleb Goods
4. Mohammad Amir Anwar
5. P. Hall
6. Mark Graham
7. Wouter Jacobs
8. Ray Hudson

In Political Science and International Relations

1. A. Veen
2. P. Hall
3. Mark Graham
4. T. Barratt
5. Wouter Jacobs
6. Ray Hudson
7. E. Swyngedouw
8. Caleb Goods

In Public Administration

1. A. Veen
2. P. Hall
3. Mark Graham
4. T. Barratt
5. Wouter Jacobs
6. Ray Hudson
7. E. Swyngedouw
8. Caleb Goods

Citations in the corpus

• Conceptualizing economies and their geographies: spaces, flows and circuits (2004, background): “Equally, there are typically competitive struggles between capitalists for markets and profits and among groups of workers seeking to promote their interests in competition with other groups of workers (Herod, 2001; Hudson, 2001).”
• Globalisation or ‘glocalisation’? Networks, territories and rescaling (2004, background): “…1997; MacLeod and Goodwin 1999; Marston 2000, Silvern 1999), of regulation (Boyle 2000; Berndt 2000; Brenner 1997; Leitner 1997; Swyngedouw 1992a), of social and union action (Herod 2001; Sadler 2000; Walsh 2000; Waterman and Wills 2001) and of contestation (Castree 2000; Miller 1997; Towers 2000).”
• Hidden transcripts of the gig economy: labour agency and the new art of resistance among African gig workers (2019, background): “Labour geography as a sub-discipline emerged in response to the Marxian-inspired economic geography literature of the 1970s and other social science disciplines that neglected the agency of workers in their analyses of political-economic structures (see Herod, 1997, 2001).”
• Why are maritime ports (still) urban, and why should policy-makers care? (2012, background): “relocation of some cargo handling activities away from the terminal [28].”
• ‘I’m my own boss…’: Active intermediation and ‘entrepreneurial’ worker agency in the Australian gig-economy (2020, background): “Labour agency simultaneously shapes how labour is integrated into production processes and economic space itself (Herod, 2001).”