How do workers form and shape places and spaces of re/production in today’s capitalism? This is the central question of the recently published book “Arbeitswelten” (Doutch/Engelhardt/López/Premchander/Wenner, 2026) that introduces perspectives of Labour Geography as a distinct, critical lens within German-speaking academia. The edited volume centres around the everyday lives of workers in contested worlds of labour and offers a holistic, reflexive view of labour as both subject and actor. Thereby this first comprehensive Labour Geography collection in German-speaking academia opens and invites interdisciplinary dialogue.

At the book launch, Anne Engelhardt and Michaela Doutch, two of the editors, first introduce and frame the volume’s overarching contribution, while Benjamin Etzold and the editors themselves spotlight their respective chapters, illustrating the merits (and pitfalls) of Labour Geography as a critical research perspective.