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social science subjects > economics > applied economics > economic geography > geography of labor
social science subjects > geography > human geography > economic geography > geography of labor
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geography of labor  

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  • Studying how people reproduce themselves materially in different places has been and remains a major preoccupation of geographical inquiry. What people do to “make a living” varies greatly across noncapitalist and capitalist economies. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Labor, Geography of]

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