'Labour geography' was a phrase coined in the 1990s by US-based geographer Andrew Herod to capture the idea that workers knowingly seek to shape economic landscapes in their own interests. It thus began as Herod's response both to neo-classical spatial scientists' portrayal of labour as just another factor of production and to Marxist contemporary contexts of Namibia (Jauch and Bergene; Magnusson, Knutson and Endresen); China and Vietnam (Knutson and Hansson); and South Korea (Doucette).
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