Putting Workers on the Map
Towards a Labour Cartography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14701729 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Mcfarland (California State University, Dominguez Hills, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 21-38 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cartographica The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0317-7173 • E-ISSN: 1911-9925 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cart-2022-0019 |
| OpenAlex | W4378650303 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 41 |
Labour cartography is a useful frame for cartographic research. The project of labour cartography involves three main areas of study. First, recovery of an archive of maps created by workers and labour unions, a history of cartography from below. Second, mapping and spatial analysis that renders visible historical patterns of work, organizing, and working-class community life. Third, research into applications of GIS by contemporary labour unions and workers’ advocacy organizations, with an eye to developing more widespread, sophisticated, and democratic uses of maps and spatial analysis in organizing work. US labour archives contain many maps collected, repurposed, made, and distributed by workers and their unions. These maps provide the basis for a new recognition of the presence of workers and unions in cartographic history, a recognition analogous to that which guided work in labour geography that emerged in the 1990s. Extant maps illuminate scalar tensions in the production, synthesis, and dissemination of geographic knowledge. They reflect the unions’ challenge of reconciling expertise with participation: steering labour organizing activity by a range of information, from the fine-grained social geographies of the shop floor up through the broad terrain of corporate and sectoral campaign research
Cartography · Extant taxon · Geography · Regional science · Sociology · Work (physics · Engineering · Labor Movements and Unions · Urban Planning and Governance
Coalitions Across the Class Divide
Insurgent identities
Sit-Down
Reading Classes
Deconstructing the Map
Introduction
Cartography, Ethics and Social Theory
Knowledge Production through Critical GIS
Reflecting on J.B. Harley's Influence and What He Missed in “Deconstructing the Map”
Gulag’—Slavery, Inc.”
The union hall was the center of the worker's life’
Mapping and Charting Construction Organizing Targets and Opportunities
Workers, Space, and Labor Geography
Justice for Janitors
Towards a Geography of Unionization
Spatialities of class formation
Queering the Map
Rethinking Environmental Racism
Beyond Cooptation or Resistance
Participatory GIS - a people's GIS
Whose Woods Are These? Counter-Mapping Forest Territories in Kalimantan, Indonesia
Feminist Visualization
Emerging Labour Strategies in Toronto's Hotel Sector
Dilemmas of Counter-Mapping Community Resources in Tanzania
What Happened to Class
Guide to the Local Assemblies of the Knights of Labor
A People's Guide to Los Angeles
Geographical Inquiry and American Historical Problems
The Geography of Class in an Industrial American City
Seeing Like a StateHow Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
How Digitized Strategy Impacts Movement Outcomes
American Trade Unions and Data Limitations
Breaking the Iron Law of Oligarchy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |