Geography of Financial Services: A Study on the Role of Knowledge, Creativity and Innovation in the Financial Industry

Prior conceptions of labour have viewed waged workers as passive factors of production, or a pseudo-
commodity, with little ability for self-determination.

However, the rise of labour unions, and an increasing recognition of labour's ability to organise has brought about a recent paradigm shift that has seen labour reposition itself in relation to the production process.

As such, my work looks at the agency of workers in relation to the structural constraints placed upon them. Focusing specifically on the strategies employed by garbage collectors, I seek to examine and analyse the practices and means through which the garbage collectors assert their agency in their daily conduct.

Furthermore, I seek a deeper understanding of the nature of mobile work spaces, whereby the spaces of production have become more fluid, as compared to regular desk-bound employment.