Fragile synchronicities: diverse, disruptive and constraining rhythms of employment-related geographical mobility, paid and unpaid work in the Canadian context

Neis, Barbara; Barber, Lachlan B.; Fitzpatrick, Kathleen A.; Hanson, Natasha; Knott, Christine; Premji, Stéphanie; Thorburn, Elise

doi:10.1080/0966369x.2018.1499616

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“…Touring professionals experience insecurity on a seasonal basis. Neis et al (2018) describe the "fragile synchronicities" that mobile workers face, arguing the need to expand theories of employment mobility to better understand the many forms of seasonal or longdistance travels to work. Touring work fits this call.…”

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“…Respondents described similar situations where they lost work because artists' popularity declined or decided not to tour, or for a host of contingent factors. Accordingly, workers are victims of these "fragile synchronicities" (Neis et al 2018) through the seasonality of work, lack of choice in work, the insecurity and limited tenure of contracts and the changing tastes of consumers.…”

Section: The Timespace Of Touringmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“There are no days off, just days without shows”: precarious mobilities in the touring music industry

Zendel

2020

Applied Mobilities

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Section: The Timespace Of Touringmentioning

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Section: The Timespace Of Touringmentioning

confidence: 99%

“There are no days off, just days without shows”: precarious mobilities in the touring music industry

Zendel

2020

Applied Mobilities

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“…In reference to gender, several articles report steady growth in the number of women working in construction (Dalmia 2012;Mitra & Mukhopadhay 1989), despite the discrimination they face in the industry (Madikizela & Haupt 2010, Neis et al, 2018. In India, Mitra and Mukhopadhay (1989) find that 3.55% of the labour force is female in 1971, and that this increases to 4.04% by 1981.…”

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By the numbers: the construction industry in Canada from 1986 to 2016

Haan

Hewitt

Chuatico

2020

Labour & Industry: a journal of the social and economic rel

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Construction is an important employer in all developed countries, which bolsters the local and global economy. The construction industry is responsible for creating structure that improve productivity and quality of life not only in Canada but also in other developed and developing countries. Although considerable research exists on important facets of the industry (including education, skills and training; precarious work; migration and labour mobility; gender, working-time and work-life balance), few studies look at how the labour force has changed over time. In this paper we model the factors that predict participation in the Canadian construction industry in 1986 and 2016, and document the changes between these two points in time. We find broad similarities between the sociodemographic characteristics of workers in 1986 and 2016, and large changes in the source regions of these workers. We also find different geographical mobility patterns between 1986 and 2016, and discuss the implications of these changes for both the industry itself, and the workers and families that derive their livelihoods from construction work.

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“…The attention to the rhythm of movements and processes of humans and natures is especially pertinent in rural and coastal communities that have melded their lives around seasonal employment. Previous work on seafood processing in Oceanside 1 New Brunswick (NB) (Knott 2016;Knott and Neis 2017;Neis et al 2018), has outlined how the development of the seafood industry created a way of life that was both shaped by the capitalist commodification of herring through the historical colonization of North America, but was also limited to the cyclical rhythms of the herring themselves, who travelled to the area and were caught first in herring weirs (similar to a net), and later seine boats, between May and November (Nowak et al 1993). Herring, harvested via the traditional weir fishery in NB, was a relatively lucrative, stable fishery.…”

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The rhythm of making cheaps: a case study of rhythmanalysis and qualitative labour shortages in Canadian fisheries

Knott

2020

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This paper explores how an intersectional rhythmanalysis approach that includes attention to animals, ecosystems and corporate capital investment strategies can provide crucial insight into reported labour shortages. This paper unpacks the systemic relations of difference and power among mobile workers by highlighting the reorganization of temporal rhythms of work and life, but also animals and environments, that work to create or reproduce immobility and enclosure. Drawing on interview data and document analysis related to the seafood processing sector, the paper argues that the construction of qualitative labour shortages is tied to racialized, gendered and classed workers who are migrant or mobile. Critically, this includes new rhythms of capital accumulation, and related arrhythmias in the work/home lives of local and interprovincial migrant Canadian workers, through changes to schedules and seasonal contracts. These rhythmic changes make employment in these plants less desirable or feasible for these workers and support employers' claims of labour shortages.

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Fragile synchronicities: diverse, disruptive and constraining rhythms of employment-related geographical mobility, paid and unpaid work in the Canadian context

Cited by 22 publications

References 66 publications

“There are no days off, just days without shows”: precarious mobilities in the touring music industry

“There are no days off, just days without shows”: precarious mobilities in the touring music industry

By the numbers: the construction industry in Canada from 1986 to 2016

The rhythm of making cheaps: a case study of rhythmanalysis and qualitative labour shortages in Canadian fisheries

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