GGRB05H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Contingent Work, Deindustrialization, Haymarket Affair
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Cities are places where people live and try to make a living eg. cities like london, mexico city, mumbai offer lots of office buildings, factories, and residential neighbourhoods (pg 101) Seen through the sheer volume of people commuting into the city visible signs of the urban labour force which mainly include: construction, professional occupations, services, retail, routine office work etc. (pg 102) Shops like sweatshops, back offices, domestic workplaces are harder to be visibly seen as places of work. The site of empty factories, shops etc. shows that capital and labour have left that area. Cities can essentially be thought of as dense areas of work and employment, as much as they are thought of as places of residence and consumption. Until recently, urban geographers only focused on the labour geographies (the way workers are organized across space and how it shapes their organizations)
