HGO4604 S22 The futures of work

1.	FUTURES: AN INTRODUCTION TO LABOUR GEOGRAPHIES

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Balliester, T., & Elsheikhi, A. (2018). The future of work: a literature review. ILO Research Department Working Paper, 29, 1-54.

Nowak, J. (2021). From industrial relations research to global labour studies: moving labour research beyond Eurocentrism. Globalizations, 18(8), 1335-1348.

Parsons, L., & Natarajan, N. (2021). Geographies of labour in a changing climate. Area, 53(3), 406-412.

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2.	AGENCY: MAKING A DIFFERENCE

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Jordhus‐Lier, D. C., & Coe, N. M. (2023). The Roles and Intersections of Constrained Labour Agency. Antipode. Forthcoming.

Raj-Reichert, G. (2023). Labour geography I: Labour agency, informal work, global south perspectives and the ontology of futures. Progress in Human Geography, 47(1), 187-193.

Dutta, M. (2016). Place of life stories in labour geography: Why does it matter?. Geoforum, 77, 1-4.

Kleinheisterkamp-González, N. (2023). The case for an environmental labor geography: The role of organized labor in the climate crisis. Progress in Human Geography, 47(2), 317-332.

4. 	Davies AD, Featherstone D. Networking resistances: The contested spatialities of transnational social movement organizing. I: Spaces of contention : spatialities and social movements. Ashgate; 2013:239–260.

5. 	Jonas AEG. Pro scale: further reflections on the scale debate in human geography. Transactions - Institute of British Geographers (1965). 2006;31(3):399–406. doi:10.1111/j.1475-5661.2006.00210.x

6. Jordhus-Lier D, Underthun A, Zampoukos K. Changing workplace geographies: Restructuring warehouse employment in the Oslo region. Environment and planning A. 2019;51(1):69–90. doi:10.1177/0308518X18787821

7. 	Marston SA. The social construction of scale. Progress in human geography. 2000;24(2):219–242. doi:10.1191/030913200674086272

8. 	Martin DG. Place frames: Analysing practice and production of place in contentious politics. I: Spaces of contention : spatialities and social movements. Ashgate; 2013:85–99.

Brookes M. Varieties of Power in Transnational Labor Alliances: An Analysis of Workers’ Structural, Institutional, and Coalitional Power in the Global Economy. Labor studies journal. 2013;38(3):181–200. doi:10.1177/0160449X13500147

11. 	Coe NM, Jordhus-Lier DC. Constrained agency? Re-evaluating the geographies of labour. Progress in human geography. 2011;35(2):211–233. doi:10.1177/0309132510366746

12. 	Herod A. Labor geographies : workers and the landscapes of capitalism, 13-49. Guilford Press; 2001.

13. 	Katz C. Growing up global : economic restructuring and children’s everyday lives. University of Minnesota Press; 2004.

14. 	Kiil MB, Knutsen HM. Agency by exit: Swedish nurses and the “Not below 24,000” movement. Geoforum. 2016;70:105–114. doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.02.012

3. ALIENATION: DIFFUSING RESPONSIBILITY FOR CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION
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Jordhus-Lier, D., Houeland, C., & Ellingvåg, T. H. (2022). Alienating assemblages: Working the carbonscape in times of transformation. Progress in Human Geography, 46(2), 319-338.
Brownhill, L., Turner, T. E., & Kaara, W. (2012). Degrowth? How about some “de-alienation”?. Capitalism nature socialism, 23(1), 93-104.
Büscher, B. (2022). The nonhuman turn: Critical reflections on alienation, entanglement and nature under capitalism. Dialogues in Human Geography, 12(1), 54-73.

4.	REPRESENTATION: REPRESENTING WORKERS AND NATURE

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17. 	Gleiss MS. How Chinese labour NGOs legitimize their identity and voice. China information. 2014;28(3):362–381. doi:10.1177/0920203X14550376

Boström, M., & Uggla, Y. (2016). A sociology of environmental representation. Environmental Sociology, 2(4), 355-364.

16. 	Cella GP. The representation of non-standard workers. theory and culture of collective bargaining 1. Transfer (Brussels, Belgium). 2012;18(2):171–184. doi:10.1177/1024258912439144

Houeland, C., & Jordhus-Lier, D. (2022). ‘Not my task’: Role perceptions in a green transition among shop stewards in the Norwegian petroleum industry. Journal of Industrial Relations, 64(4), 522-543.

18. 	Wauters B, Mus M, Lannoo S, Devos C. Perfect match or missing link? An analysis of the representativeness of trade union representatives in Belgium: Perfect match or missing link? Industrial relations journal. 2014;45(5):424–442. doi:10.1111/irj.12070

19. 	Saward M. The Representative Claim. Contemporary political theory. 2006;5(3):297–318. doi:10.1057/palgrave.cpt.9300234

5.	LABOUR REGIMES

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21. 	Knutsen HM, Hansson E. Theoretical approaches to changing labour regimes in transition economies. I: Missing links in labour geography. Ashgate; 2010:155–168.

22. 	Nichols T, Cam S, Chou W chi G, Chun S, Zhao W, Feng T. Factory regimes and the dismantling of established labour in Asia: a review of cases from large manufacturing plants in China, South Korea and Taiwan. Work, employment and society. 2004;18(4):663–685. doi:10.1177/0950017004047958

23. 	Smith A, Barbu M, Campling L, Harrison J, Richardson B. Labor Regimes, Global Production Networks, and European Union Trade Policy: Labor Standards and Export Production in the Moldovan Clothing Industry. Economic geography. 2018;94(5):550–574. doi:10.1080/00130095.2018.1434410

6.	FRAGMENTATION: DIGITAL INTERMEDIARIES

Jordhus-Lier, D. C. (2014). Fragmentation revisited: flexibility, differentiation and solidarity in hotels. In Jordhus-Lier, D. C. and A. Underthun (eds), A hospitable world?: Organising work and workers in hotels and tourist resorts, Routledge, pp. 39-51.

24. 	Jesnes K, Oppegaard SMN. Platform work in the Nordic models: Issues, cases and responses. Nordic Council of Ministers. https://pub.norden.org/temanord2020-513/temanord2020-513.pdf

25. 	Jesnes K. Employment Models of Platform Companies in Norway: A Distinctive Approach? Nordic journal of working life studies. 2019;9(S6). doi:10.18291/njwls.v9iS6.114691

Anwar, M. A., & Graham, M. (2020). Hidden transcripts of the gig economy: labour agency and the new art of resistance among African gig workers. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 52(7), 1269-1291.

Schwiter, K., & Steiner, J. (2020). Geographies of care work: The commodification of care, digital care futures and alternative caring visions. Geography Compass, 14(12), e12546.

26. 	Kenney M, Zysman J. The Rise of the Platform Economy. Issues in science and technology. 2016;32(3):61–69.

27. 	Vallas S, Schor JB. What Do Platforms Do? Understanding the Gig Economy. Annual review of sociology. 2020;46(1):273–294. doi:10.1146/annurev-soc-121919-054857

7.	SOLIDARITY: INTERSECTIONAL WORKER STRUGGLES 

Kelliher, D. (2018). Historicising geographies of solidarity. Geography Compass, 12(9), e12399.

38. 	Houeland C, Jordhus‐Lier DC, Angell FH. Solidarity tested: The case of the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO‐Norway) and its contradictory climate change policies. Area (London 1969). 2021;53(3):413–421. doi:10.1111/area.12608

33. 	Alberti G, Holgate J, Tapia M. Organising migrants as workers or as migrant workers? Intersectionality, trade unions and precarious work. International journal of human resource management. 2013;24(22):4132–4148. doi:10.1080/09585192.2013.845429

Thomas Black, S., Anthony Milligan, R., & Heynen, N. (2016). Solidarity in climate/immigrant justice direct action: Lessons from movements in the US South. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 40(2), 284-298.

Jordhus-Lier, DC, V Price and C Houeland (2024). Structuring a conversation across time, space and political distance, Annals of the American Association of Geographers.

28. 	Castles S. Nation and empire: Hierarchies of citizenship in the new global order. International politics (Hague, Netherlands). 2005;42(2):203–224. doi:10.1057/palgrave.ip.8800107

29. 	Castles S. Nation and empire: Hierarchies of citizenship in the new global order. International politics (Hague, Netherlands). 2005;42(2):203–224. doi:10.1057/palgrave.ip.8800107

30. 	Jordhus-Lier D. Claiming industrial citizenship: The struggle for domestic worker rights in Indonesia. Norsk geografisk tidsskrift. 2017;71(4):243–252. doi:10.1080/00291951.2017.1369453

31. 	Yeoh BSA, Huang S, Gonzalez J. Migrant Female Domestic Workers: Debating the Economic, Social and Political Impacts in Singapore. The International migration review. 1999;33(1):114–136. doi:10.1177/019791839903300105

32. 	Zhang C, Lillie N. Industrial citizenship, cosmopolitanism and European integration. European journal of social theory. 2015;18(1):93–111. doi:10.1177/1368431014553756

8.	PRECARITY: WORKERS CROSSING BORDERS

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Lewis, H., Dwyer, P., Hodkinson, S., & Waite, L. (2015). Hyper-precarious lives: Migrants, work and forced labour in the Global North. Progress in Human Geography, 39(5), 580-600.

Natarajan, N., Brickell, K., & Parsons, L. (2019). Climate change adaptation and precarity across the rural–urban divide in Cambodia: Towards a ‘climate precarity’approach. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2(4), 899-921.

Gotehus, A. (2021). Agency in deskilling: Filipino nurses’ experiences in the Norwegian health care sector. Geoforum, 126, 340-349.

33. 	Alberti G, Holgate J, Tapia M. Organising migrants as workers or as migrant workers? Intersectionality, trade unions and precarious work. International journal of human resource management. 2013;24(22):4132–4148. doi:10.1080/09585192.2013.845429

34. 	Cobble DS. Organizing the Postindustrial Work Force: Lessons from the History of Waitress Unionism. Industrial & labor relations review. 1991;44(3):419–436. doi:10.1177/001979399104400302

35. 	Johns R, Vural L. Class, geography, and the consumerist turn: UNITE and the Stop Sweatshops Campaign. Environment and planning A. 2000;32(7):1193–1213. doi:10.1068/a3255

36. 	Lewis NM, Mills S. Seeking security: Gay labour migration and uneven landscapes of work. Environment and planning A. 2016;48(12):2484–2503. doi:10.1177/0308518X16659773

9.	JUSTICE: JUST TRANSITION PROCESSES

Jenkins, K., McCauley, D., Heffron, R., Stephan, H., & Rehner, R. (2016). Energy justice: A conceptual review. Energy Research & Social Science, 11, 174-182. 

39. 	Newell P, Mulvaney D. The political economy of the «just transition». The Geographical journal. 2013;179(2):132–140. doi:10.1111/geoj.12008
Galgóczi, B. (2020). Just transition on the ground: Challenges and opportunities for social dialogue. European Journal of Industrial Relations, 26(4), 367-382. 
Jordhus-Lier, Henriksson J, Houeland C, Quirino G, Holland IA (forthcoming). Anchoring a just transition: the ambivalent roles of Norwegian trade unions. Energy Research & Social Science 

40. 	Stevis D, Uzzell D, Räthzel N. The labour–nature relationship: varieties of labour environmentalism. Globalizations. 2018;15(4):439–453. doi:10.1080/14747731.2018.1454675

10.	CIRCULARITY: DECOMMISSIONING THE OIL INDUSTRY
Andrew Herod, Graham Pickren, Al Rainnie, Susan McGrath Champ, Global destruction networks, labour and waste, Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 14, Issue 2, March 2014, Pages 421–441, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbt015 
Martinez-Alier, J. (2022). Circularity, entropy, ecological conflicts and LFFU. Local Environment, 27(10-11), 1182-1207. 
Invernizzi, D. C., Locatelli, G., Velenturf, A., Love, P. E., Purnell, P., & Brookes, N. J. (2020). Developing policies for the end-of-life of energy infrastructure: Coming to terms with the challenges of decommissioning. Energy Policy 144, 111677.
Crang, M. et al., 2013. Rethinking governance and value in commodity chains through global recycling networks. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 38(1), pp.12–24.