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Logistics Places: An Urban Geography of Post‐Industrial Blue‐Collar Workers

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  • Nicolas Raimbault

    (ESO - Espaces et Sociétés - UNICAEN - Université de Caen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université - UM - Le Mans Université - UA - Université d'Angers - UR2 - Université de Rennes 2 - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Nantes Univ - IGARUN - Institut de Géographie et d'Aménagement Régional de l'Université de Nantes - Nantes Université - pôle Humanités - Nantes Univ - Nantes Université - Institut Agro Rennes Angers - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement)

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic and the various lockdown and curfew episodes in 2020 and 2021 cast light on places, flows and workers that had largely remained in the shadow of post-Fordist transformations and neoliberal policies at work in metropolitan areas. Due to shortages, the challenges related to supplying daily consumer goods were widely covered in the media. This chapter proposes to decipher the logistics places of metropolitan areas according to a social geography approach. It analyzes the geography of warehouse workers, which is mainly deployed around the urbanization front of agglomerations. The chapter then looks at the work and places of the delivery drivers and platform workers, mainly articulated around historical centers. In this way, it shows how this geography of postindustrial blue-collar workers and the associated social mobilizations partly reshape the contemporary working-class centralities of 21st-century urban areas. Warehouses are major places of employment for blue-collar workers, whom they are concentrating in increasing numbers.

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  • Nicolas Raimbault, 2025. "Logistics Places: An Urban Geography of Post‐Industrial Blue‐Collar Workers," Post-Print hal-05129001, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05129001
    DOI: 10.1002/9781394388486.ch4
    Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://hal.science/hal-05129001v1
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