The geographies of community‐oriented unionism
Scales, targets, sites and domains of union renewal in South Africa and beyond
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8964077 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Jordhus-Lier (0000-0002-8462-1239, corresponding author), David Jordhus‐Lier |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 36-49 |
| Publication date | 2012-04-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2012.00504.x |
| OpenAlex | W2120282594 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 61 |
This article takes the increased interest in union renewal and community politics within the geography discipline as its starting point, and argues that the various cases described in the literature should be understood as socio‐spatial responses to a new geography of work. Encouraged by the literature on contentious politics, I provide a conceptualisation of how workers reconfigure political spaces through community orientation. A concrete case of municipal unionism in Cape Town, South Africa is used to explore these geographies along four dimensions: the scalar strategies of trade unions, their targets for direct action, their sites of recruitment and the domain of mobilisation these campaigns and alliances stake out for themselves. It is argued that community‐oriented unionism tends to entail a reorientation of each of these dimensions. Moreover, union strategies correspond to particular challenges faced in times when local labour markets undergo neoliberal restructuring, such as fragmentation of work and rescaling of labour relations
Economic geography · Economics · Labour economics · Political action · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Restructuring · Sociology · Trade union · Work (physics · Employment and Welfare Studies · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Labor Movements and Unions · Law
O Conhecimento Geográfico Sobre Os Trabalhadores
Developmental state theory and its application in geography
Organising at the margins
The Capitalist Enterprise as Territory and the Workers' Power
Keep costumes out, keep trains in
Institutionalised conflict, subaltern worker rebellions and insurgent unionism
La « guerre de l’eau » à Cochabamba. De la réappropriation de l’espace politique à la reproduction d’un lieu symbolique de la contestation
Negotiating Neoliberal Empowerment
Living a ‘shadow life’
Global production networks, labour and development
Trans-scalar embeddedness and governance deficits in global production networks
Expanding labour geographies
Reactive or proactive? Examining demands and geographies of manufacturing workers’ collective actions in China
Worker-Led Dissent in the Age of Austerity
Labour internationalism and the public sector
Red outposts in a hostile landscape
Public Sector Labour Geographies and the Contradictions of State Employment
Labor geographies of socially embedded work
Towards a pluralist labor geography
Representing foreign workers in the private security industry
Spaces of Work
Work, Locality and the Rhythms of Capital
Grounding Globalization
Present in the World Economy
Labour agency and union positionalities in global production networks
Deconstructing rural protest
Insurgency and Spaces of Active Citizenship
Constrained agency? Re-evaluating the geographies of labour
Thinking through work
Between marginalisation & revitalisation? the state of trade unionism in South Africa
Trade unions, social policy & class compromise in post-apartheid South Africa
Subcontracted Employment and its Challenge to Labor
The Effectiveness and Limits of Labor- Community Coalitions
Privatization and the Historical Trajectory of “Social Movement Unionism”
Community Unionism in Canada and Labor's (Re)Organization of Space
Restructuring the Architecture of State Regulation in the Australian and Aotearoa/New Zealand Cleaning Industries and the Growth of Precarious Employment
Introduction
Labor Internationalism and the Contradictions of Globalization
Justice for Janitors
Spaces of Labor Activism, Mexican-American Women and the Farm Worker Movement in South Texas Since 1966
Southern Unionism and the New Labour Internationalism
Mapping Class and its Political Possibilities
From a Geography of Labor to a Labor Geography
The Geography of Union Organising in Low‐Paid Service Industries in the UK
Maximum Working Class Unity? Challenges to Local Social Movement Unionism in Cape Town
Common Ground at Ground Zero? The New Economy and the New Organizing in Los Angeles
Privatising Cape Town
Placing Legitimacy
Neoliberalism and Resistance in South Africa
The Geography of Trade Union Decline
Organizing European Labour
Discourse on the Docks
Community unionism and trade union renewal in the UK
Place, networks, space
Trade unions, coalitions and communities
Putting capital in its place
Aggregating dispersed workers
Bridging the Gap between Class and Space
More on the "Problems" of Community
Spaces of dependence, spaces of engagement and the politics of scale, or
Human geography without scale
The spatialities of contentious politics
Africa's informal workers
Translocal assemblages
Emerging Labour Strategies in Toronto's Hotel Sector
Towards a Geographical Politics of Consumption
Closing Barts
Geographies of Consumption
Women Working Worldwide
Organizing the Scale of Labor Regulation in the United States
Class, Geography, and the Consumerist Turn
Geographic Scale and Grass-Roots Internationalism
"Getting by" in Time and Space
Building reciprocal community unionism in the UK
Flexible Firms and Labor Market Segmentation
South Korean Trade Union Movement at the Crossroads
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,43 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |