Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Part I Introduction -- 1 Re-engaging with Agency in Labour Geography -- 2 Labour Geography: Where Have We Been? Where Should We Go? -- 3 Re-embedding the Agency of Labour -- Part II The Agency of Unions -- 4 The Entangled Geographies of Trans-national Labour Solidarity -- 5 Exploring the Grassroots' Perspective on Labour Internationalisms -- 6 Navigating a Chaotic Consciousness in the Trade Union Movement -- 7 Schumpeterian Unionism and 'High-Road' Dreams in Toronto's Hospitality Sector -- 8 Trade Unions as Learning Organizations: The Challenge of Attracting Temporary Staff -- 9 Union Power and the Formal-Informal Divide -- Part III Politics of Labour -- 10 Between Revolutionary Rhetoric and Class Compromise: Trade Unions and the State -- 11 The Constitutive Inside: Contingency, Hegemony, and Labour's Spatial Fix -- 12 Theoretical Approaches to Changing Labour Regimes in Transition Economies -- 13 Between Coercion and Consent: Understanding Post-Apartheid Workplace Regimes -- Part IV Labour and Strategies of Capital -- 14 Erosion from Above, Erosion from Below: Labour, Value Chain Relegation and Manufacturing Sustainability -- 15 Globalization and the Reworking of Labour Market Segmentation in the Philippines -- 16 'We Order 20 Bodies'. Labour Hire and Alienation -- Part V Conclusion -- 17 Approaches to the Social and Spatial Agency of Labour -- Index.