Labour Geography
Our research group is interested in better understanding patterns of socio-spatial inequality in labour, migration and gender.
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Extending the platform debate beyond cities: assessing the scale and scope of platform-mediated childcare work in Switzerland
With this new paper, Corinna Hertweck, Aniko Hannak, and Karin Schwiter challenge the assumption that platform work is predominantly an urban phenomenon. Their analysis is based on 58 000 scraped worker profiles from 8 childcare platforms in Switzerland.
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Underemployed but overworked: reframing the paradox of underemployment through the lens of racial capitalism
Based on in-person interviews with underemployed workers in the commercial cleaning sector in Zurich, Reta Barfuss and Karin Schwiter, in this new article, reframe the phenomenon of time-related underemployment through the lens of racial capitalism. This lens enables an understanding of underemployment not merely as an effect of neoliberalisation, but as a consequence of othering processes intrinsic to capitalism that render specific communities exploitable.
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Involuntary part-time work
Thousands of people in Switzerland work part-time against their will, often because they are denied the opportunity to work longer hours. For those affected, this can lead to financial insecurity and increased psychological stress, as Karin Schwiter and Reta Barfuss explain in the online publication Social Security by the Federal Social Insurance Office.
Upcoming events
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10.11.2026, 16:00: Thinking geographically about housing decommodification
Prof Dr Mara Ferreri, Autonomous University of Barcelona; Ort: Y25, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zürich; Raum: H 86
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24.11.2026, 16:00: “The political geography of a never-ending conflict: Israel/Palestine between apartheid and peace“
Prof (Em.) Oren Yiftachel, hon., UCL; Ben-Gurion University Beersheba; senior researcher «A Land for All – two states, one homeland»; Ort: Y25, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zürich; Raum: G 55