Labour geography and the state: Exploring labour's role in working against, with and through the state to improve labour standards

IF 4.6 1区社会学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space Pub Date : 2023-07-03 DOI:10.1177/0308518x231178816

T. Hastings, A. Herod

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Abstract

State labour inspection has been relatively underresearched in economic and labour geography, despite its prospective role in tackling worker exploitation as part of national state regulatory strategies. This paper seeks to address this gap by critically examining state labour inspection as a government function capable of upholding labour standards within and across economic space. A key contribution of the paper is to make stronger connections between workers’ spatial strategies and their ability to shape how labour inspection and standards enforcement is carried out. Focusing upon the UK and Ireland, we examine different ways in which some labour-friendly groups have sought to contest but also to support state labour inspection efforts with a view to protecting workers.

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劳工地理与国家:探讨劳工在与国家对抗、与国家合作或通过国家提高劳工标准方面的作用

国家劳动监察在经济和劳动地理学方面的研究相对不足，尽管它作为国家管制战略的一部分有望在解决工人剥削问题方面发挥作用。本文试图通过严格审查国家劳动检查作为能够在经济空间内和跨经济空间维护劳动标准的政府职能来解决这一差距。该论文的一个关键贡献是在工人的空间策略与他们塑造劳动检查和标准执行方式的能力之间建立了更强的联系。以英国和爱尔兰为例，我们研究了一些对劳工友好的团体试图反对但也支持国家劳动检查工作的不同方式，以保护工人。

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Environment and Planning A-Economy and Space Multiple-

CiteScore

9.50

自引率

9.50%

发文量

100

期刊介绍： Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space is a pluralist and heterodox journal of economic research, principally concerned with questions of urban and regional restructuring, globalization, inequality, and uneven development. International in outlook and interdisciplinary in spirit, the journal is positioned at the forefront of theoretical and methodological innovation, welcoming substantive and empirical contributions that probe and problematize significant issues of economic, social, and political concern, especially where these advance new approaches. The horizons of Economy and Space are wide, but themes of recurrent concern for the journal include: global production and consumption networks; urban policy and politics; race, gender, and class; economies of technology, information and knowledge; money, banking, and finance; migration and mobility; resource production and distribution; and land, housing, labor, and commodity markets. To these ends, Economy and Space values a diverse array of theories, methods, and approaches, especially where these engage with research traditions, evolving debates, and new directions in urban and regional studies, in human geography, and in allied fields such as socioeconomics and the various traditions of political economy.