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The Nature of Labor: Fault Lines and Common Ground in Environmental and Labor History

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Peck, G
Published in: Environmental History
April 2006

Recent efforts to build bridges between environmental and labor history have relied primarily on the idea of alienation, a concept that means sharply different things to each subfield and which represents an incomplete foundation for collaboration. Instead, historians need to analyze and historicize geographies of labor. Comprising the spatial, material, and cultural connections between nature and labor, ǧeographies of labor elucidate not only how nonhuman nature and human work have historically become alienated, but also how they have inspired mutually defining visions of redeemed nature and labor, from the 1830s to the present.

Duke Scholars

Published In

Environmental History

ISSN

1084-5453

Publication Date

April 2006

Volume

11

Start / End Page

212 / 238

Related Subject Headings

  • History
  • 5002 History and philosophy of specific fields
  • 4406 Human geography
  • 2103 Historical Studies
 

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Peck, Gunther. “The Nature of Labor: Fault Lines and Common Ground in Environmental and Labor History.” Environmental History 11 (April 2006): 212–38.
Peck, Gunther. “The Nature of Labor: Fault Lines and Common Ground in Environmental and Labor History.” Environmental History, vol. 11, Apr. 2006, pp. 212–38.
Journal cover image

Published In

Environmental History

ISSN

1084-5453

Publication Date

April 2006

Volume

11

Start / End Page

212 / 238

Related Subject Headings

  • History
  • 5002 History and philosophy of specific fields
  • 4406 Human geography
  • 2103 Historical Studies