Annual Workshop of the Working Group Labour Geography
The struggle for legal recognition, labour rights and the intersection with regulatory regimes plays a key role in the advancement of workers’ interests. After decades of neoliberal reform, such struggles currently intensify as labour movements worldwide are coming under pressure from authoritarian political projects. Processes such as the fragmentation of labour, forms of algorithmic management and widespread strategies of union busting or attacks on the right to strike have reshaped – and are reshaping – the conditions of work even across highly institutionalized workplace regimes. Beyond this traditional arena of wage labour, the ongoing crises of social reproduction are further aggravated by attacks on public spending, welfare regimes and protections such as regulation on the length of the work day.
Labour geography – with its characteristic focus on labour agency and the production of space – sheds light on these changing uneven geographies of work under capitalism. By engaging with forms of domination in workplace regimes and beyond as well as interrelations between dimensions of social inequality, the social metabolism with nature on the one hand and conditions of work and organizing on the other, labour geographic research contributes to analyses of the current conjuncture. However, the relationship between labour, law and space is less often reflected explicitly in recent debates in labour geography.
Hence, we dedicate our next annual workshop in Halle (Saale) to these questions and cordially invite all members and other interested researchers for participation. Our workshop aims at fostering exchange and networking among researchers from German-speaking countries who deal with questions around work, the agency of workers as well as social conditions and forms of collective organizing from a geographical perspective.
Contributions and Registration for Participants
The deadline for submissions has passed. You can register using the form below.
Preliminary Programme
The workshop starts on 29th of January at 13:00 h and ends on 30th of January at 17:00 h. There will a welcome dinner in the evening of the 28th January. The programme will be published in December.
Practical Matters
The main working language of the meeting will be English. However, individual contributions or sessions may be submitted in German. Our location at the MLU offers a parent-child room, which can be used with a caregiver of the child. Unfortunately, we cannot provide childcare.
There will be a participation fee of 20 Euro upon registration.
For questions about the conference or the rooms, please contact Yannick Ecker (yannick.ecker (at) geo.uni-halle.de).
We look forward to a lively participation!
Your local orga-group: Boris Michel, Yannick Ecker, Sophie Altmiks
and orga-support team: Tanja Potezica, Pedro José Salguero González, Janika Kuge, Michaela Doutch, Oliver Pye, Stephan Liebscher
Registration form
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