|
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Work & labour
|
Buy Now
Builders - Class, Gender and Ethnicity in the Construction Industry (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R4,636
Discovery Miles 46 360
|
|
|
Builders - Class, Gender and Ethnicity in the Construction Industry (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
Building workers constitute between five and ten per cent of the
total labour market in almost every country of the world. They
construct, repair and maintain the vital physical infrastructure of
our societies, and we rely upon and trust their achievements every
day. Yet we know surprisingly little about builders, their
cultures, the organization of their work or the business relations
that constitute their industry. This book, based on one-year's
participant observation on a London construction site, redresses
this gap in our knowledge by taking a close-up look at a section of
building workers and businessmen. By examining the organizational
features of the building project and describing the skill, sweat,
malingering, humour and humanity of the building workers, Thiel
illustrates how the builders were mostly autonomous from formal
managerial control, regulating their own outputs and labour
markets. This meant that the men's ethnic, class and gender-bound
cultural activities fundamentally underpinned the organization of
their work and the broader construction economy, and thereby
highlights the continuing centrality of class-bound culture and
social stratification in a post-industrial, late modern world.
Thiel outlines the on-going connections and intersections between
economy, state, class and culture, ultimately showing how these
factors interrelated to produce the building industry, its
builders, and its buildings. Based predominately on cultural and
economic sociology, this book will also be of interest to those
working in the fields of gender and organizational studies; social
class and inequality; migration and ethnicity; urban studies; and
social identities.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
