Publications [#295637] of Gunther W. Peck

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Papers Published

  1. Peck, G. "The Nature of Labor: Fault Lines and Common Ground in Environmental and Labor History." Environmental History 11.2 (April, 2006): 212-238. [3986230], [doi]
    (last updated on 2026/01/20)

    Abstract:
    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.

Gunther W. Peck

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