"Getting by" in Time and Space
Fragmented Work in Local Authorities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4040714 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Suzanne Reimer (0000-0001-7325-4368, University of Hull, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 157-177 |
| Publication date | 1999-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economic Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0095 • E-ISSN: 1944-8287 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1944-8287.1999.tb00121.x |
| OpenAlex | W1980804378 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 29 |
Manual work in British local authorities has been substantially restructured since the introduction of compulsory competitive tendering (CCT) in 1988. The central argument of the paper is that CCT has led to an increasing fragmentation of work, employment, and labor markets. Drawing primarily upon interviews with cleaning and catering employees in three case study councils, I demonstrate that labor forces are now highly diversified as wage and other divisions have emerged among groups of workers both between and within different local labor markets. The employment experiences of individual workers also have become fragmented. Not only is job tenure limited to the length of a contract, but also private contractors frequently seek to alter employees' terms and conditions of work during the life of the contract itself. Additionally, many cleaning and catering workers must now combine multiple part‐time, frequently insecure jobs in an attempt to obtain a living wage. Extending the work of Mingione, the paper stresses the complexity of restructuring within what have long been low‐wage, low‐status, and highly gender‐segregated sectors of employment
Argument (complex analysis) · Business · Economic geography · Economics · Labour economics · Low wage · Physics · Political science · Procurement · Restructuring · Space (punctuation) · Temporary work · Wage · Work (physics) · Computer Science · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Employment and Welfare Studies · Finance · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Labor Movements and Unions · Marketing
Property Bureaucracy and Culture
Fragmented Societies
Farewell to flexibility
A woman's place?
Gender, Race, and Commuting Among Service Sector Workers∗
Gender, Work and Space
Capital Culture
The Global City
The General Household Survey
Contract Service Firms in Local Authorities
Working in a Risk Society
On Suburban Pink Collar Ghettos
A women's issue
Labour-Market Changes and New Forms of Work in Old Industrial Regions
Mrs Thatcher's Vision of the 'New Britain' and the other Sides of the 'Cambridge Phenomenon
Regulation Theory, the Local State, and the Transition of Urban Politics
Hollowing out' the Local State
Dynamic Dependencies
Pushing Back the Tide
Going Private
Women in England, 1870-1950
Restructuring Organisations, Changing People
The Restructuring of Welfare Work
What a Difference a Day Makes
From Public Provision to Privatisation
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,42 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2018 (19) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |