Labor Geographies

Reviews / Votes

"The forward march of labor in geography is cemented by the publication of this book. Using a strong set of theoretical tools, Herod vividly illustrates the political importance of geography for working class organization. Workers today are all too often cast as powerless victims of globalization, forced into competition with one another. This book does the labor movement an enormous service by exploring the political possibilities of strategic local action and transnational solidarity. It deserves to be widely read by scholars, students, and labor activists alike."--Jane Wills, coeditor, Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography; Department of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

"Examining how workers and their organizations, especially trade unions, struggle to shape the landscape under capitalism, Labor Geographies helps break down traditional academic barriers between cultural and economic geography and labor studies. It also compels labor unions to rethink their strategies in geographic terms. In the process, Andrew Herod is contributing to the influence of geography on the development of a new working-class studies."--John Russo and Sherry Linkon, Co-directors, Center for Working-Class Studies, Youngstown State University

"A first-rate introduction to the exciting new interdisciplinary field of labor geography by one of its leading and most influential scholars. Using an integrated and well-crafted blend of theoretical and empirical material, Herod shows how geographical context has shaped the actions of workers and their unions--and how workers and unions have shaped the unfolding geographies of capitalism. I highly recommend this book as a text for senior undergraduate and graduate courses in economic geography, labor studies, labor history, and industrial relations, and as a source of original research for scholars in these fields."--John Holmes, Department of Geography, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

"If, as economic geographers say, all aspects of social existence are necessarily spatial, then what does this mean for understanding what is happening to labor today? Herod provides answers to this question in a compelling and refreshing treatment of space, scale, and labor activism. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. It should be read by everyone interested in the world of labor and industrial relations. In setting out the core concepts of labor geography, Herod communicates complex ideas clearly and achieves that rarest of feats in leaving his readers with new ways of looking at the world and labor's place in it."--Bradon Ellem, Work and Organisational Studies, University of Sydney, Australia "A first-rate introduction to the exciting new interdisciplinary field of labor geography by one of its leading and most influential scholars....I highly recommend this book as a text for senior undergraduate and graduate courses in economic geography, labor studies, labor history, and industrial relations, and as a source of original research for scholars in these fields." - John Holmes, Department of Geography, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada"If, as economic geographers say, all aspects of social existence are necessarily spatial, then what does this mean for understanding what is happening to labor today? Herod provides answers to this question in a compelling and refreshing treatment of space, scale, and labor activism. I cannot recommend this book highly enough....In setting out the core concepts of labor geography, Herod communicates complex ideas clearly and achieves that rarest of feats in leaving his readers with new ways of looking at the world and labor's place in it." - Bradon Ellem, Work and Organisational Studies, University of Sydney, Australia

"Labor Geographies helps break down traditional academic barriers between cultural and economic geography and labor studies. It also compels labor unions to rethink their strategies in geographic terms. In the process, Andrew Herod is contributing to the influence of geography on the development of a new working-class studies." - John Russo and Sherry Linkon, Co-directors, Center for Working-Class Studies, Youngstown State University, USA

"Workers today are all too often cast as powerless victims of globalization, forced into competition with one another. This book does the labor movement an enormous service by exploring the political possibilities of strategic local action and transnational solidarity. It deserves to be widely read by scholars, students, and labor activists alike." - Jane Wills, coeditor, Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography; Department of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London, UK