No Bicycle, No Bus, No Job : The Making of Workers’ Mobility in the Netherlan...

Description: No Bicycle, No Bus, No Job : The Making of Workers’ Mobility in the Netherlands, 1, Hardcover by Bek, Patrick, ISBN 9463723188, ISBN-13 9789463723183, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 1. The historical perspective on an important topic in current academic and policy debates: mobility poverty and mobility justice. So far, only few historians have dealt with these topics, though, as this book shows, political choices in the past affect workers’ commute and job accessibility today. 2. The exploration of company archives that have not been used before to study mobility history. 3. The focus on workers and employers as shaping agents of everyday mobility where previous historiography tends to focus on governments, transport companies, and mobility-related advocacy groups. For working people, the expenses of going to their jobs, in terms of time and cost, are a crucial aspect of daily life. As economic conditions and mobility systems changed in the twentieth century, this aspect of workers’ lives underwent significant transformations. Historians have only begun to unravel how power and social inequality informed the governance of everyday mobility. Amid the turmoil of twentieth century economic booms and busts, war and austerity, and processes of (car-centered) suburbanization, how did low-income, rural, and migrant workers get to work in the Netherlands? Governing Workers’ Mobility explores the political choices underlying workers’ daily commute. Using archival collections, it uncovers the shaping role of workers and employers, detailing their understanding and response to past mobility barriers. It discusses workers’ discovery of bicycles, buses, mopeds, and cars; highlights company efforts to support and control employees’ mobility; and shows that today’s predicaments have a longer history.

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