Editorial: Arbeit. Raum. Kämpfe.
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https://doi.org/10.32387/prokla.v55i220.2209Keywords:
Editorial, Labour, Labour Geography, Labour StrugglesAbstract
Spatial changes in the field of production influence labour disputes – and vice versa. Globalisation, offshoring and outsourcing of production were partly reactions to successful worker organisation, aimed at undermining hard-won wage levels or social standards. At the same time, spatial restructuring – both nationally and globally – is giving rise to new groups of workers who are developing new forms of struggle and new strategies for organising transnational campaigns and international solidarity. Labour geography focuses on the spatial problems of class struggle. It addresses the question of how workers actively produce economic spaces and spatial scales.
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