Labouring geography: Negotiating scales, strategies and future directions |
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| Authors: | Steven Tufts Lydia Savage |
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| Institution: | aDepartment of Geography, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3;bDepartment of Geography – Anthropology, University of Southern Maine, 300b Bailey Hall, Gorham, ME 04038, USA |
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| Abstract: | In our editorial introduction to this themed issue on labour geography, we outline some important on-going debates in the relatively young field of labour geography and suggest future directions for research. First, there is the key question of labour as an active agent in the production of economic landscapes. The agency of labour will likely remain a defining feature of labour geography, but perhaps it is not as important to construct theoretical analytical boundaries as it is to define labour geography as a political project. Second, debates continue surrounding the production of scale and the multiscalarity of organized labour. Third, labour geographers have yet to engage in any sustained fashion with unpacking the complex identities of workers and the way in which those identities simultaneously are shaped by and shape the economic and cultural landscape. Fourth, there is some debate on the costs and benefits of a ‘normative’ labour geography which emphasizes what workers and their organizations ‘could’ or even ‘should’ do. Lastly, we challenge the assumption that labour geographers have not yet asserted themselves as activists in their own right. We conclude the editorial by introducing the articles included in the issue. While these articles may not address every gap in the literature, they do contribute in significant ways to move the labour geography project forward. |
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| Keywords: | Labour geography Agency Scale Organizing strategy |
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