Labour and the city
Some notes across theory and research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5697276 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Buckley (0000-0003-4742-1796, University of Toronto, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geography Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-8198 • E-ISSN: 1749-8198 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/gec3.12400 |
| OpenAlex | W2891172016 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 59 |
At a time of growing interest in research and theory concerning urban space and urban workers, this article explores three divergent strands of scholarly research and theory that are producing new perspectives on the relations of labour, work, and employment with processes of urbanization, the production of urban space or city life. Drawing together research and debates both within geography and outside of it, this article briefly reviews emerging urban scholarship on labour in the so-called "sharing economy," historical research on the distinctly urban histories of slavery in North America, the Caribbean, Africa, and South America, and the often unpaid and highly gendered labour of urban homesteading and autonomous self-provisioning in cities. This article does not strive to present comprehensive or masterful readings of these literatures but rather to explore some of the very different ways that "labour" is mobilized in them, noting the differences between them but also pointing to some of the insights about knowledge production on labour and city life that is offered by reading them together
Civil engineering · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Geography · Political science · Provisioning · Relations of production · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Urban economics · Urban theory · Urbanization · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Urban Planning and Governance · Urban Studies
Blue Gentrification
What counts as infrastructural labour? Community action as waste work in South Africa
Beyond engaged pluralism? The question of labor in labor geography
Engels’ ‘proletarisation’ and ‘great towns’ vis-à-vis dispossession, and gendered work in an informal economy
Thinking the city through work
Doing the work
Labour geography III
Confronting labour loss in the tourist city
On “the Concrete”
It is for home but we use it for work
At your service
Who's got time for social reproduction? Migrant service workers as embodied infrastructures of the algorhythmic city
Fast cars, clean bodies
Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban
The Deadly Life of Logistics
Creole Indigeneity
You are what you can access
Precarity North and South
Reflections on a White Discipline
Beyond the Screen
Neoliberalization, social reproduction and the limits to labour in Jamaica
Child Slaves in the Modern World
Temporary Work
Dispossessed Lives
Sharing as a postwork style
Sharing economy workers
People as businesses’
The new development finance or exploiting migrant labour
The planetary urbanization of non-work
The urban process under financialised capitalism
Can't I be seen? Can't I be heard? Black women queering politics in Newark
Urban homesteading and intensive mothering
Sharing, togetherness and intentional degrowth
Governing a city of unicorns
Coming of Age
Doing Deals on the House’ in a ‘Post-welfare’ Society
The Elusive Inclusive
Working with Strangers in Saturated Space
Global cities, transnational flows and gender dimensions
Keeping the Faith
Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow
Order and Place in a Colonial City
Kingston, Jamaica, and Charleston, South Carolina
Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica
Conceiving Freedom
Power and Historical Figuring
Keeping London working
Performing the sharing economy
Making Black Los Angeles
The Precariat
The Labor of (Re)reading Plantation Landscapes Fungible(ly)
Reconceptualizing the Links between Home and Work in Urban Geography
Staging Testimony in Nanay
Toward a New Countermovement
Metropolis
Division, Segmentation, and Interpellation
Dynamic Dependencies
Gender, the Home-Work Link, and Space-Time Patterns of Nonemployment Activities
Toxic geographies
The Great African Slave Revolt of 1825
Feminist Theory
The End of Capitalism (as we knew it)
People as Infrastructure
From 'Dangerous Classes' to 'Quiet Rebels
Interior Travelogues and 'Inside Views
DIY Detroit
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,71 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |