Andrew Herod has developed and sustained
a body of creative research on the geography of labor
and labor organizing. His
scholarship focuses on the geographically differentiated
process of union and labor organizing and on labor
as a political force
in economic geography. Dr. Herod has helped activate
a once-dormant area of economic geography. In analyzing
the geography of production
scholars had paid less attention to labor, giving
more weight to labor firms. Recently, Dr. Herod has incorporated
the cultural
turn in economic geography and helped pioneer a research
program on geographic scale in human geography. This
work, conducted
in a number of locations around the world, has focused
on local and global activities.
Source: 22nd
Annual Research Awards Program (2001)
