Abstract
AbstractBased on an ethnographic study of male manual workers in Blackpool, a large seaside town in the United Kingdom, and drawing on Bourdieu as a theoretical frame, this article explores the role of place in understanding conditions and experiences of precarity. With higher than average levels of deprivation, seaside towns have experienced particular employment challenges where precariousness is likely to be at the forefront of male manual workers' labour market condition. Results highlight the significance of the interplay between place, employment prospects, geographical ‘constriction’ and dispositions of ‘provisionality,’ which, together, produce ‘uneven geographies’ of labour. We develop the concept of ‘place precarity’ to show how precarity is fundamentally rooted in the spatial context and to capture how conditions and experiences of precarity interact with localised employment conditions.
Highlights
Informed by the theoretical insights from Bourdieu (1977, 1990), this article explores the experiences of male manual workers in Blackpool, a large seaside town in the United Kingdom
Drawing on Bourdieu as a theoretical frame, this article set out to explore the role of place in defining the work experiences of male manual workers in Blackpool, UK—a seaside town that has been subject to long term decline and particular socio-economic challenges
It has investigated how place is implicated in conditions and experiences of precarity in terms of how employment circumstances and place might intersect
Summary
Informed by the theoretical insights from Bourdieu (1977, 1990), this article explores the experiences of male manual workers in Blackpool, a large seaside town in the United Kingdom It focusses on how members of this group, largely overlooked within public policy and the academy, encounter precarity and how place, as a materialisation of social relations and practices (Massey, 1984, 1995), is implicated in their employment experiences. Little is known about the role of place, as physical locality as well as a constellation of opportunities, processes and relationships (Massey, 2005), in shaping both the conditions and the ‘lived experiences’ of precarity (Waite, 2009) This is in a context where, as with many seaside towns that have suffered long term decline, precariousness is likely to be at the forefront of their labour market condition.
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