Both geographical research on socioecological transformations and labour geography see decisive deficiencies in current capitalist structures centred around growth. To highlight possibilities of economic pluralism, both fields analyse diverse economic spaces within, next to and beyond capitalist structures. A basic assumption in transformation perspectives is that economic structures are not fixed, but can be transformed by people as economic actors. This corresponds to the concept of ‘labour agency’ from labour geography, i.e. that workers as active agents are able to (re)shape the structures they are embedded in. Despite those common perspectives, these threads of research coexist without having been intertwined. With a focus on wage labour, this paper addresses the potential for an integrative perspective illustrated by the example of companies owned/managed by workers. In charge of their own skills, time and resources, workers can actively break with prevalent market logics, which incentivise trading (human) resources at the lowest price possible. By rejecting core dynamics of capitalist structures, these companies illustrate the workers' potential key role in processes of socioecological transformations. Thus, the derived objectives of this paper are (1) to analyse and accentuate existing parallels between labour geography and research on socioecological transformations, (2) to illustrate the potential transformative impact of labour agency exemplified by companies in worker's hands and (3) to enrich the field of labour geography by an understanding of labour geographies as transformative spaces. This paper serves as a cornerstone and invitation for further research at this interface.

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劳动地理学的变革视角——劳动中介在社会生态转型过程中的作用

对社会生态转变的地理学研究和劳动地理学研究都看到了当前以增长为中心的资本主义结构的决定性缺陷。为了突出经济多元化的可能性，这两个领域都分析了资本主义结构内部、旁边和之外的不同经济空间。转型视角的一个基本假设是经济结构不是固定的，而是可以由作为经济参与者的人们进行转型。这对应于劳动地理学中的“劳动代理”概念，即工人作为积极的代理人能够（重新）塑造他们所嵌入的结构。尽管有这些共同的观点，但这些研究线索共存而没有交织在一起。以雇佣劳动为重点，本文以工人拥有/管理的公司为例，阐述了综合观点的潜力。在掌握自己的技能、时间和资源的情况下，工人可以积极打破普遍的市场逻辑，激励以尽可能低的价格交易（人力）资源。通过拒绝资本主义结构的核心动力，这些公司说明了工人在社会生态转型过程中的潜在关键作用。因此，本文的衍生目标是 (1) 分析和强调劳动地理学与社会生态转型研究之间现有的相似之处，(2) 说明劳动中介的潜在变革影响，以工人中的公司为例。(3) 通过将劳动地理学理解为变革性空间来丰富劳动地理学领域。本文是在此界面进一步研究的基石和邀请。