Andrew Herod
Biographic Data
| ID | 353909 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Herod |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Herod |
| SIGNATURE | HEROD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5668-3803 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 73 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 651 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 72 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Workfare for youth and regional resilience in the lagging EU South: A conceptual framework
This paper develops a spatially-sensitive approach to understanding the challenges of youth labour markets in the EU South during recent successive economic crises. Drawing upon Geographical Political Economy and Evolutionary Economic Geography, it develops a framework through which to evaluate the operation of the Youth Guarantee, a programme introduced in 2013 that aims to encourage resiliency in youth labour markets by ensuring that all young …
Evaluating the adoption of the Round Table on Responsible Soy in Mato Grosso, Brazil
This article examines Round Table on Responsible Soy (RTRS) certification adoption in Mato Grosso, Brazil's largest soy-producing region. We investigate changes in certified farms, production volumes, spatial distribution, and impacts on production methods. Our analysis reveals contested efforts to implement sustainable production principles. While RTRS demonstrates potential through multi-actor governance and supply chain tracking, its transform…
Scale matters
Scale is one of Geography’s central concepts. This chapter explores how geographical scale has been thought about in two realms: in cartography and with regard to how geographers (and others) have used the concept of scale to understand spatial order in the world. In the cartographic realm, the chapter shows that scale is not a neutral metric by which to represent distance on the Earth’s surface but that it has a particular historical geography t…
Precarity and agency in youthspaces of work: The case of food delivery platform workers in Athens, Greece
The growth of digital platforms is spawning new, if often precarious, forms of work. One such type of work that has particularly grown in recent years, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, is that of digital platform-facilitated on-demand food delivery services. Such deliveries are often undertaken by younger workers. Given this, here we explore the following research questions: (i) what forms of labour precarity are found and reproduced in t…
Localised waste reduction networks, global destruction networks and the circular economy
Creating a circular economy (CE) is considered central to solving problems like climate change and resource depletion. In this context, the concept of global destruction networks was developed to better theorise using waste in new production. However, CE advocates also seek to avoid waste production by extending products’ lives. These efforts occur within what we term waste reduction networks. Examining how these two sets of networks intersect al…
Labour geography and the state: Exploring labour's role in working against, with and through the state to improve labour standards
State labour inspection has been relatively underresearched in economic and labour geography, despite its prospective role in tackling worker exploitation as part of national state regulatory strategies. This paper seeks to address this gap by critically examining state labour inspection as a government function capable of upholding labour standards within and across economic space. A key contribution of the paper is to make stronger connections …
Weaving the labouring landscape in the Sri Lankan apparel industry. A review of Kanchana N. Ruwanpura's Garments without Guilt
Garments without Guilt? Global Labour Justice and Ethical Codes in Sri Lankan Apparels. Kanchana N. Ruwanpura. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2022, pp. xxvi +198. ISBN 978-1-108-83201-4 (hbk). Traditionally, explanations of how industries have developed in particular places have largely looked to the actions of capital and/or the state. Neo-classical theory, for instance, has suggested that it is the spatial distribution of various ‘f…
In what way a ‘Guarantee for youth’? Neets entrapped by labour market policies in the European Union
Following the economic crisis of 2008/2009, the European Union developed the Youth Guarantee (YG) Action Plan to tackle youth labour market disengagement by ‘fostering employability’ and ‘removing barriers’ to employment. The current study adopts a Geographical Political Economy approach to analysing the YG's underpinnings and the conditions that differentiate its application on a regional level to explore whether – and, if so, how – the YG helps…
Youth labour markets in the Southern European Union, 2009-2021: Deciphering trajectories of resilience through a decade of consecutive crises
This paper adopts a Geographical Political Economy perspective to critically investigate how successive economic crises occurring from 2009 onwards (including the COVID-19 pandemic) affected youth labour markets in Greece, Italy, and Spain. To do so, it first calculates a Resilience Index for three youth employment types (total, part-time, and temporary employment). It then employs Shift-Share Analysis to quantify the effect of national trends, s…
Labor Geographies and the Corporation
The structure of corporations has often been understood to result from the investment decisions made by managers. Such a view sees workers in largely passive terms of being simply “factors of production.” However, in the past three decades a group of self‐described Labor Geographers has demonstrated that workers can forcefully shape corporate organization through their activities. This research community has shown how workers have impacted the st…
On the recursive relationship between gentrification and labour market precarisation: Evidence from two neighbourhoods in Athens, Greece
Gentrification and labour precarisation constitute prominent responses to urban capitalist crises. They have typically been addressed in the literature as distinct processes. Even though they can indeed occur independently of one another, here we argue that they are also often deeply interconnected. To do so, we utilise a mix of fieldwork and secondary data to investigate how gentrification has both fostered labour precarisation but also how it h…
La violencia hacia las mascotas como indicador en la violencia de género
Esta investigación cualitativa de carácter documental pretende averiguar si la literatura científica contempla la violencia hacia las mascotas de las mujeres víctimas de la violencia de género, por parte de sus agresores, como una tipología de la violencia machista y, por tanto, un factor de detección y valoración social. Los resultados obtenidos a partir del análisis de contenido documental revelan la existencia de dicha interconexión, pero en l…
Adventures with Marx
An account of my journey from an English schoolboy interested in landscapes to academic geographer, and the role that my engagement with Marx has played in that intellectual odyssey
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic upon employment and inequality in the Mediterranean EU: An early look from a Labour Geography perspective
COVID-19 is a global pandemic but has a particular geography to it, differentially affecting people and places. Here we explore its impact upon labour markets in the Mediterranean European Union (EU) countries. Our analysis is part of a collective work-in-progress monitoring the pandemic’s effects upon workers since early March 2020. First we note that there is a geographical political economy to pandemics. We then scrutinise the current pandemic…
Inter-regional underemployment and the industrial reserve army: Precarity as a contemporary Greek drama
We explore the 2008/2009 economic crisis in Greece and its impact upon employment precarity. Specifically, we focus upon changing regional patterns of waged part-timerism during three periods: the 2005–2008 pre-crisis period; the 2009–12 deep recession; and the 2013–2016 period of mild stabilization. Our analysis reveals important geographical and sectoral variations in the growth of this type of underemployment. In particular, we find that metro…
Debates sobre la escala geográfica en el mundo anglófono
Los debates sobre la escala geográfica han cambiado radicalmente la forma de la geografía humana anglófona en las tres últimas décadas. A la cabeza de la discusión hay dos grupos de preguntas de mayor importancia: ¿cuál es el estado ontológico de la escala?, y ¿cómo las maneras como imaginamos que el mundo está escalado afectan nuestro comportamiento en él? Estas preguntas revisten especial importancia en el contexto de los argumentos sobre el ca…
Warring Brothers: Constructing Komatsu's and Caterpillar's Globalization
We detail how the world's two largest engineering machinery firms, Japan's Komatsu and the us's Caterpillar, actively managed geographical concerns to become global actors. We argue that their globalization was not a teleological given but had to be proactively made. Both the state and organized labor played significant roles in shaping their geographical evolutions, as did their efforts to outmaneuver each other spatially. Their globalization, t…
Spatial Fix
Developed largely by Marxist geographer David Harvey, the concept of the “spatial fix” has been central to efforts to theorize uneven development under capitalism. The term refers to how capitalists seek to make the economic geography of capitalism in certain ways, either to facilitate accumulation or to try to temporarily address crises of overaccumulation by spatially and/or temporally displacing these crises. Significantly, in recent years lab…
The Ways of the World; Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason
David Harvey. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2016. viii and 376 pp., photos, diagrams, bibliography, index. $27.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0-19-046944-3).David Harvey. New York, NY: Oxford Universi
Work — The Last 1,000 Years
Review Article| September 01 2019 Work — The Last 1,000 Years Andrea Komlosy, translated by Watson, Jacob K.; Balhorn, LorenLondon: Verso, 2018iii + 265 pp., $26.95 (cloth); $9.99 (e-book) Andrew Herod Andrew Herod University of Georgia Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2019) 16 (3): 117–118. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-7569999 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Cita…
Linking Gentrification and Labour Market Precarity in the Contemporary City: A Framework for Analysis
The interplay between intensifying labour market precarity and gentrification constitutes a hitherto under‐researched topic in the fields of labour and urban geography. To rectify this lacuna, we argue that gentrification and labour flexibilisation are both socio‐spatial manifestations of capital's efforts to confront crises of accumulation. Distinguishing between what we call “weak” and “strong” links between them, and drawing upon the concepts …
Labor Geographies and the Corporation
The structure of corporations has often been understood to result from the investment decisions made by managers. Such a view sees workers in largely passive terms of being simply “factors of production.” However, in the past three decades a group of self‐described labor geographers has demonstrated that workers can forcefully shape corporate organization through their activities. This research community has shown how workers have impacted the st…
Introducing Globalization: Ties, Tensions, and Uneven Integration
Matthew Sparke. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. xvi and 491 pp., maps, photos, diagrams, glossary, bibliography, index. $102.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0-631-23128-8); $46.95 paper (ISBN 978-0-631-2
Of steel and strawberries: Greek workers struggle against informal and flexible working arrangements during the crisis
O Conhecimento Geográfico Sobre Os Trabalhadores: Reflexões Sobre as Pesquisas Nos Estados Unidos E Brasil | Geographical Scholarship on Workers: Reflections N the Field in the United States and Brazi…
Neste artigo procuro traçar duas linhas de reflexão. Em primeiro lugar, vou apresentar um breve panorama de como, o que veio a ser chamado de "Labor Geography", desenvolveu-se enquanto um campo vibrante de pesquisa no mundo da língua inglesa e quais são alguns dos seus princípios centrais. Em segundo lugar, argumentarei sobre algumas semelhanças e diferenças entre as abordagens desses geógrafos ingleses e geógrafos brasileiros que estão interessa…
From a Geography of Labor to a Labor Geography: Labor's Spatial Fix and theGeography of Capitalism
Mainstream neoclassical economic geography and its Marxist critique have largely failed to incorporate active conceptions of working class people in their explanations of the location of economic activities. Neoclassical approaches tend to conceive of workers simply as factors of location, whereas Marxist approaches primarily focus on how capital structures the economic landscape in its search for profit and frequently relegate labor to the statu…
Reflections on interviewing foreign elites: Praxis, positionality, validity, and the cult of the insider
Labor's spatial praxis and the geography of contract bargaining in the US east coast longshore industry, 1953-1989
Working space: Why Incorporating the Geographical Is Central to Theorizing Work and Employment Practices
Theorists of work and employment (W&E) practices should more seriously engage with literatures concerning how space is constitutive of social praxis. Rather than simply serving as a stage upon which social life is played out or being merely a reflection of social relations, the construction of the economic landscape in particular ways is fundamental to how social systems function. Struggles over space are a central dynamic in W&E practices as dif…
Organizing the landscape: Geographical Perspectives on Labor Unionism
Labor Internationalism and the Contradictions of Globalization: Or, Why the Local is Sometimes Still Important in a Global Economy
In this paper I examine two case studies of workers fighting against transnationally organized corporations. In the first case, a 1990–1992 dispute between the United Steelworkers of America and the Ravenswood Aluminum Corporation, union workers developed an international campaign to pressure the corporation to rehire them after they had been locked out in a dispute over health and safety issues. In the second case, a 1998 dispute between the Uni…
The Practice of International Labor Solidarity and the Geography of the Global Economy
Economic geographers have neglected the international activities of workers and working class organizations. Worker invisibility has been particularly evident in explanations of the geography of foreign direct investment. Yet for over a century workers have built international labor organizations which have shaped economic and political geographies. This paper examines an international campaign waged on behalf of some 1,700 members of United Stee…
Global destruction networks, labour and waste
Analysis of waste has largely focused on the physical transformation of commodities at the ends of their lives. This has led to a discourse of ongoingness in which the re-use of commodities’ parts is often seen to be almost endless. Such a focus on form, though, fails to adequately account for the movement of value—used here in the Marxist sense of ‘congealed labour’—or to recognize the centrality of the labour process in shaping how previously u…
Of steel and strawberries: Greek workers struggle against informal and flexible working arrangements during the crisis
Workers, Space, and Labor Geography
In this paper I argue that adopting an explicitly spatial theoretical framework can add significantly to our understanding of working-class life. Specifically, I argue that workers are spatial as well as historical social agents and that they seek to shape the economic landscape in ways which facilitate their political and economic goals, though they clearly do not have free range to do so—workers make their own geographies, though not under the …
On Workers' Theoretical (In)visibility in the Writing of Critical Urban Geography a Comradely Critique
Marxist geography has been at the forefront of understanding the urban dynamic of advanced capitalism. There is, however, a paradox in much of this work. Whereas Marxist geographers implicitly take workers' experiences under capitalism as their political starting point, ironically, much Marxist work in urban geography has tended to ignore workers' proactive roles in shaping the urban landscape. Rather, Marxist urban geographers have focused large…
Discourse on the Docks: Containerization and Inter‐Union Work Disputes in US Ports, 1955–85
Research on labour markets has often focused on the economics of work location. Far less attention has been paid to how labour markets are constructed discursively. In this paper, I analyse how the creation of rival discourses concerning traditions of work were central elements in the efforts of two unions to structure local labour markets, in order to retain work for their members in the face of technological innovation. The struggle between the…
Local Political Practice in Response to a Manufacturing Plant Closure: How Geography Complicates Class Analysis
This paper analyzes the responses to two separate closures of a large glass manufacturing plant in Clarksburg, West Virginia, to examine how geography has been integral to the conduct of local political practice in this community. When the plant, by far the local area's largest manufacturing employer, first closed in 1979 the state and local government put together a considerable package of incentives to attract a purchaser for the facility. Howe…
Workers and Workplaces in a Neoliberal Global Economy
In this commentary I suggest that three sets of processes-a dramatic shrinking of distance between places, a growing global interconnection of economies, and the increasing importance for many corporations of an 'international strategy'-are having fundamental impacts on workers and workplaces. Although these processes are playing out in geographically uneven ways, differentially affecting various parts of the globe, there are three sets of genera…
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic upon employment and inequality in the Mediterranean EU: An early look from a Labour Geography perspective
COVID-19 is a global pandemic but has a particular geography to it, differentially affecting people and places. Here we explore its impact upon labour markets in the Mediterranean European Union (EU) countries. Our analysis is part of a collective work-in-progress monitoring the pandemic’s effects upon workers since early March 2020. First we note that there is a geographical political economy to pandemics. We then scrutinise the current pandemic…
Geographies of Labor Internationalism
Globalization is transforming the spatial organization of the world economy. In particular, it is leading to the “shrinking globe” phenomenon and the speeding up of social interaction between places across the planet. Given that international labor solidarity is a process of coming together across space, I argue that the spatial reorganization of global capitalism has important consequences for practices of solidarity. Specifically, I suggest tha…
Homework and the fragmentation of space: Challenges for the labor movement
Dockers and Seafarers: What the Politics of Spatial Embeddedness and Geographical Scale Have Meant for Union Organizing in the European Maritime Trades
Both workers and employers must come to grips with capitalism’s spatial organization, and how they do so shapes the kinds of political behaviors in which they engage. In this article the authors explore how two different groups of European workers—dockers and seafarers—have responded to liberalization efforts and suggest that their differential success in resisting labor market deregulation can be explained, at least in part, by how they are spat…
Further Reflections on Organized Labor and Deindustrialization in the United States
In what way a ‘Guarantee for youth’? Neets entrapped by labour market policies in the European Union
Following the economic crisis of 2008/2009, the European Union developed the Youth Guarantee (YG) Action Plan to tackle youth labour market disengagement by ‘fostering employability’ and ‘removing barriers’ to employment. The current study adopts a Geographical Political Economy approach to analysing the YG's underpinnings and the conditions that differentiate its application on a regional level to explore whether – and, if so, how – the YG helps…
Introduction: Cleaners and the Dirty Work of Neoliberalism
Implications of Just-in-Time Production for Union Strategy: Lessons from the 1998 General Motors-United Auto Workers Dispute
(2001). Implications of Just-in-Time Production for Union Strategy: Lessons from the 1998 General Motors-United Auto Workers Dispute. Annals of the Association of American Geographers: Vol. 91, No. 1, pp. 200-202
Labor Geographies: Workers and the Landscape of Capitalism
Waste, commodity fetishism and the ongoingness of economic life
Waste in general, and e‐waste in particular, has become a topic of interest in recent years. One focus of attention has been on how commodities are broken up after the putative end of their lives, with such commodities' constituent elements then being used as inputs into other products. The fact that much waste is recycled in this manner has led several scholars to emphasise the ‘ongoingness’ of economic life. In this context, Lepawsky and Mather…
Global production networks, labour and small firms
The literature on global production networks (GPNs) and global commodity/value chains has generally conceptualised small firms as being at the bottom of the commodity chain hierarchy, and thus subordinate to larger firms. As a consequence, small firms and their employees are typically imagined to be fairly powerless to shape the structure of GPNs. By way of contrast, in this paper we argue that small firms and their employees are not lacking in t…
From Rag Trade to Real Estate in New York's Garment Center: Remaking the Labor Landscape in a Global City
During the 1980s, New York City enjoyed a spectacular economic renaissance fuelled by the influx of unprecedented amounts of international finance capital. This renaissance stimulated the conversion into office and residential space of many lofts traditionally used for light manufacturing. Increasing numbers of loft conversions in the city's Manhattan Garment Center district provoked growing conflicts between developers and landlords wishing to c…
Local Political Practice in Response to a Manufacturing Plant Closure: How Geography Complicates Class Analysis
This paper analyzes the responses to two separate closures of a large glass manufacturing plant in Clarksburg, West Virginia, to examine how geography has been integral to the conduct of local political practice in this community. When the plant, by far the local area's largest manufacturing employer, first closed in 1979 the state and local government put together a considerable package of incentives to attract a purchaser for the facility. Howe…
Homework and the fragmentation of space: Challenges for the labor movement
On Workers' Theoretical (In)visibility in the Writing of Critical Urban Geography a Comradely Critique
Marxist geography has been at the forefront of understanding the urban dynamic of advanced capitalism. There is, however, a paradox in much of this work. Whereas Marxist geographers implicitly take workers' experiences under capitalism as their political starting point, ironically, much Marxist work in urban geography has tended to ignore workers' proactive roles in shaping the urban landscape. Rather, Marxist urban geographers have focused large…
Further Reflections on Organized Labor and Deindustrialization in the United States
The Practice of International Labor Solidarity and the Geography of the Global Economy
Economic geographers have neglected the international activities of workers and working class organizations. Worker invisibility has been particularly evident in explanations of the geography of foreign direct investment. Yet for over a century workers have built international labor organizations which have shaped economic and political geographies. This paper examines an international campaign waged on behalf of some 1,700 members of United Stee…
From a Geography of Labor to a Labor Geography: Labor's Spatial Fix and theGeography of Capitalism
Mainstream neoclassical economic geography and its Marxist critique have largely failed to incorporate active conceptions of working class people in their explanations of the location of economic activities. Neoclassical approaches tend to conceive of workers simply as factors of location, whereas Marxist approaches primarily focus on how capital structures the economic landscape in its search for profit and frequently relegate labor to the statu…
Labor's spatial praxis and the geography of contract bargaining in the US east coast longshore industry, 1953-1989
Organizing the landscape: Geographical Perspectives on Labor Unionism
Discourse on the Docks: Containerization and Inter‐Union Work Disputes in US Ports, 1955–85
Research on labour markets has often focused on the economics of work location. Far less attention has been paid to how labour markets are constructed discursively. In this paper, I analyse how the creation of rival discourses concerning traditions of work were central elements in the efforts of two unions to structure local labour markets, in order to retain work for their members in the face of technological innovation. The struggle between the…
Union Retreat and the Regions: The Shrinking Landscape of Organised Labour
Reflections on interviewing foreign elites: Praxis, positionality, validity, and the cult of the insider
Workers and Workplaces in a Neoliberal Global Economy
In this commentary I suggest that three sets of processes-a dramatic shrinking of distance between places, a growing global interconnection of economies, and the increasing importance for many corporations of an 'international strategy'-are having fundamental impacts on workers and workplaces. Although these processes are playing out in geographically uneven ways, differentially affecting various parts of the globe, there are three sets of genera…
Labor Internationalism and the Contradictions of Globalization: Or, Why the Local is Sometimes Still Important in a Global Economy
In this paper I examine two case studies of workers fighting against transnationally organized corporations. In the first case, a 1990–1992 dispute between the United Steelworkers of America and the Ravenswood Aluminum Corporation, union workers developed an international campaign to pressure the corporation to rehire them after they had been locked out in a dispute over health and safety issues. In the second case, a 1998 dispute between the Uni…
Implications of Just-in-Time Production for Union Strategy: Lessons from the 1998 General Motors-United Auto Workers Dispute
(2001). Implications of Just-in-Time Production for Union Strategy: Lessons from the 1998 General Motors-United Auto Workers Dispute. Annals of the Association of American Geographers: Vol. 91, No. 1, pp. 200-202
Theorizing Space and Time
Geographies of Power: Placing Scale
(Andrew Herod and Melissa W. Wright)Part I: Theorizing Scale.Introduction: Theorizing Scale. (Andrew Herod and Melissa W. Wright)1. Beyond Global vs. Local: Economic Politics Outside the Binary Frame. (J. K. Gibson-Graham)2. The Urban as an Object of Study in Global Cities Literatures: Representational Practices and Conceptions of Place and Scale. (Eugene J. McCann) 3. Globalization, the Regulation Approach, and the Politics of Scale. (Kevin Cox)…
An Unruly World: Globalization, Governance and Geography
An Unruly World explores the diverse conundrums thrown up by seemingly unruly globalization. Examining how fast transnational capitalism is re-making the rules of the game, in a wide variety of different places, domains, and sectors, the authors focus on a wide range of issues: from analysis of 'soft capitalism', and the post-Cold War organizational drives of international trade unions, to the clamour of states to reinvent welfare policy, and the…
Workfare States . Jamie Peck; Geographies of Disability . Brendan Gleason; From Aztec to High Tech: Architecture and Landscape across the Mexico-United States Border . Lawrence A. Herzog; Regions, Glo…
Workers, Space, and Labor Geography
In this paper I argue that adopting an explicitly spatial theoretical framework can add significantly to our understanding of working-class life. Specifically, I argue that workers are spatial as well as historical social agents and that they seek to shape the economic landscape in ways which facilitate their political and economic goals, though they clearly do not have free range to do so—workers make their own geographies, though not under the …
Geographies of Labor Internationalism
Geographies of Labor Internationalism
Globalization is transforming the spatial organization of the world economy. In particular, it is leading to the “shrinking globe” phenomenon and the speeding up of social interaction between places across the planet. Given that international labor solidarity is a process of coming together across space, I argue that the spatial reorganization of global capitalism has important consequences for practices of solidarity. Specifically, I suggest tha…
Pension Fund Capitalism
Key Words: economic developmentfinancepensionsregulation Notes 1. By the mid-1990s, the Housing Investment Trust and its predecessor had produced more than 33,000 units of housing worth approximately $1.2 billion across the U.S., while the AFL-CIO's Building Investment Trust (established in 1988) developed more than 2.8 million square feet of commercial and industrial space in its first five years of operation alone (Herod 2001,; 291 Herod, A. 20…
Labor Geographies: Workers and the Landscape of Capitalism
Dialectical Urbanism: Social Struggles in the Capitalist City
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