The Covid-19 pandemic and the various lockdown and curfew episodes in 2020 and 2021 cast light on places, flows and workers that had largely remained in the shadow of post-Fordist transformations and neoliberal policies at work in metropolitan areas. Due to shortages, the challenges related to supplying daily consumer goods were widely covered in the media. This chapter proposes to decipher the logistics places of metropolitan areas according to a social geography approach. It analyzes the geography of warehouse workers, which is mainly deployed around the urbanization front of agglomerations. The chapter then looks at the work and places of the delivery drivers and platform workers, mainly articulated around historical centers. In this way, it shows how this geography of postindustrial blue-collar workers and the associated social mobilizations partly reshape the contemporary working-class centralities of 21st-century urban areas. Warehouses are major places of employment for blue-collar workers, whom they are concentrating in increasing numbers.

The Covid-19 pandemic and the various lockdown and curfew episodes in 2020 and 2021 cast light on places, flows and workers that had largely remained in the shadow of post-Fordist transformations and neoliberal policies at work in metropolitan areas. Due to shortages, the challenges related to supplying daily consumer goods were widely covered in the media. This chapter proposes to decipher the logistics places of metropolitan areas according to a social geography approach. It analyzes the geography of warehouse workers, which is mainly deployed around the urbanization front of agglomerations. The chapter then looks at the work and places of the delivery drivers and platform workers, mainly articulated around historical centers. In this way, it shows how this geography of postindustrial blue-collar workers and the associated social mobilizations partly reshape the contemporary working-class centralities of 21st-century urban areas. Warehouses are major places of employment for blue-collar workers, whom they are concentrating in increasing numbers.