Darren Thiel

Builders

Class, Gender and Ethnicity in the Construction Industry

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book, based on one-yearâ s participant observation on a London construction site, outlines the on-going connections and intersections between economy, state, class and culture in the construction industry by taking a close-up look at a section of building workers and businessmen.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Advances in Ethnography
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9780415527194
• ISBN-10: 0415527198
• Artikelnr.: 42194614

Autorenporträt

Darren Thiel is a lecturer in sociology at the University of Essex. Before taking up this position, he worked in a number of different occupations including the agricultural, construction, service and military sectors. After completing his PhD in 2006 he also worked as a researcher at the Home Office and the Police Foundation, and taught sociology at the University of East Anglia, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Contracting and subcontracting: the build
its builders and their ethnic communities
2. Managing 'in the office'
3. Working 'on the tools'
4. Time
recreation and workplace culture
5. Becoming a builder and being working class
6. Building masculinity: bodies
law and violence
7. Economy
informality and social stratification
8. Conclusion: Cultures
capitalisms and class reproduction
Appendix A. Specifications and costs of the building project