TY - BOOK
T1 - No Bicycle, No Bus, No Job
T2 - The Making of Workers' Mobility in the Netherlands, 1920-1990
AU - Bek, Patrick K.B.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - For working people, the cost of getting to work, in terms of time and expense, is a crucial aspect of daily life. In the twentieth century, people’s opportunity to travel increased. This did not, however, apply to everyone. The absence of affordable housing near job locations combined with the lack of safe, efficient, and affordable mobility options aggravated social exclusion for some. No Bicycle, No Bus, No Job details how power relations have historically enabled or restricted workers’ mobility in twentieth century Netherlands. Blue-collar workers, industrial employers, and the state shaped workers’ everyday commute in a changing playing field of uneven power relations that shifted from paternalism to neo-liberalism.
AB - For working people, the cost of getting to work, in terms of time and expense, is a crucial aspect of daily life. In the twentieth century, people’s opportunity to travel increased. This did not, however, apply to everyone. The absence of affordable housing near job locations combined with the lack of safe, efficient, and affordable mobility options aggravated social exclusion for some. No Bicycle, No Bus, No Job details how power relations have historically enabled or restricted workers’ mobility in twentieth century Netherlands. Blue-collar workers, industrial employers, and the state shaped workers’ everyday commute in a changing playing field of uneven power relations that shifted from paternalism to neo-liberalism.
KW - labor markets
KW - mobility justice
KW - urban mobility
KW - social justice
KW - social history
KW - History of technology
U2 - 10.5117/9789463723183
DO - 10.5117/9789463723183
M3 - Book
SN - 978-94-6372-318-3
T3 - Studies in History, Technology and Society
BT - No Bicycle, No Bus, No Job
PB - Amsterdam University Press
CY - Amsterdam
ER -
