Platform firm in the gig-economy are disrupting work as a social practice, production systems
and recasting capital-labour relations. This qualitative study examines worker agency in the …

This paper examines the socio-spatial dynamics of worker agency in the platform economy
in the Washington, DC region. Drawing on the field of labor geography, we document the …

This final report highlights the increasing attention to precarity, including academic precarity,
within geography. After briefly discussing the implications for approaches to agency, I argue …

This article critically evaluates the burgeoning work on labour agency in human geography
over the past decade. We review efforts to distinguish varied forms of labour agency and …

Building on critical geographic research on the embodied politics of labour that has explored
how different forms of work transform bodily capacities for action, this paper argues that a …

Notwithstanding long membership decline and fresh threats in workplaces, there is evidence
that unions can still exercise power even in the unlikely setting of fissured workplaces. The …

This article advances labour geography's understanding of worker agency by examining
how women actively remake the workplace by forming emotional bonds and community on …

The rise of the digitally enabled gig economy has prompted debate about gig working
conditions and labor regulation, calling for research on the interactions between gig workers …

The COVID‐19 pandemic and consequent health regulations compelled office‐based
knowledge workers to work from home (WFH) en masse. Government and employer …

abstract Capitalist commodities have a necessary but overlooked accompaniment:
aftermarkets. Aftermarkets are conventionally understood as secondary commercial …