[Discussion] Workers, Suburbs, and Labor Geography

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>Call for article proposals for an International Labor and Working-Class

>History (ILWCH) thematic issue on Workers, Suburbs, and Labor Geography

>
>A large proportion of the world's workers live in communities on the
>outskirts of cities.  In different places, such communities take very
>different forms.  Many European cities (Paris, Moscow, etc.) long have
>been ringed by working-class suburbs composed of dense, high-rise
>dwellings.  In the United States, Canada, and Australia, workers have
been
>part of a massive process of suburbanization characterized by low
density,
>single-family dwellings, and automobile dependence.  In Latin America
and
>Africa, massive self-built communities of shacks and shanties surround
>major urban settlements (a phenomenon that occurred in some North
American
>cities during the early 20th century).  In India, squatter settlements
>have been interspersed in middle and upper-class neighborhoods.
>
>There has been no systematic, comparative study of working-class
suburbs
>and their meaning for labor movements and working-class politics, in
spite
>of their growing importance.  ILWCH proposes to publish a thematic
issue
>which would begin such an investigation.  It also would present an
>opportunity for ILWCH to engage with the growing body of work by
>geographers interested in the relationship between labor and the
spatial
>dimension.  Articles for the ILWCH issue might address such questions
as:
>how have patterns of working-class suburbanization (or, more generally,

>working-class residence on the edges of cities) varied from country to
>country?  How has  suburbanization impacted working-class culture,
social
>activism, politics,  and industrial relations?  What do labor movements

>look like in suburbanized worlds?  How have spatial divisions
intersected
>with ethnic and racial divisions?  How do spatial issues force us to
>rethink paradigms of labor and working-class history?  How do different

>disciplines (history, geography, sociology, anthropology, political
>science) approach issues of spatial organization, and what can scholars
of
>working-class history learn from each? We welcome proposals dealing
with a
>single country (or city) as well as those that address thematic
questions
>transnationally.
>
>Interested authors should submit a one-page proposal to:
>International Labor and Working-Class History
>Center for Studies of Social Change
>New School  for Social Research
>80 Fifth Avenue, Fifth Floor, New York, NY 10011,
>or by e-mail to
>
>joshua_freeman@qc.edu
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