CALL FOR PAPERS
Session Title: GEOGRAPHIES OF LABOUR
Convenors: George Revill and Adam Swain
Half-day session with the Economic Geography Research Group and the Historical Geography Research Group.
Issues of collective action, and labour relations are neglected areas of study within geography. Though geographers have given us detailed analysis of production and consumption under a variety of regimes of accumulation, labour relations and collective action themselves have largely remained the preserve of sociologists. Recent work within sociology and geography has shown both the continued relevance of these concepts and theoretically reinvigorated our understanding of them. The spatiality of social life, the cultural geographies of identity, subjectivity and gender and the renewed concern with material practices all suggest potential for the development of specifically geographical approaches to labour relations and collective action. This session aims to bring together research on the spatiality of labour, labour relations and collective action both historical and contemporary, and at a variety of spatial scales.
We invite papers which address themes such as:
(1) Contemporary and historical geographies of organised labour and labour disputes.
(2) Work, space and identity: cultures of work, class solidarity and trade unionism.
(3) The role of labour in the production of space, geographical scale(s) and uneven development.
(4) Labour relations: formal and informal survival strategies.
Please e-mail or post your proposed title and abstract (250 words max.) by 31st May to:
George Revill
Department of Geography
School of Social Sciences and Law
Oxford Brooks University
Oxford OX3 0BP
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Adam Swain
School of Geography
University of Nottingham
Nottingham NG7 1DL
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Adam Swain
School of Geography
University of Nottingham
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Nottingham NG7 2RD.
U.K.
Tel: +44 (0)115 95 15730 (direct)
+44 (0)115 95 15575 (office)
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