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oapen-20.500.12657-542532022-05-03T03:06:57Z No Bicycle, No Bus, No Job Bek, Patrick Governmentality, mobility, commuting, labour, mobility justice bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPQ Central government::JPQB Central government policies bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering & technology 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. 2022-05-02T09:35:47Z 2022-05-02T09:35:47Z 2022 book ONIX_20220502_9789048556403_19 9789048556403 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/54253 eng Studies in History, Technology and Society application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9789048556403.pdf Amsterdam University Press Amsterdam University Press 10.5117/9789463723183 10.5117/9789463723183 dd3d1a33-0ac2-4cfe-a101-355ae1bd857a 9789048556403 Amsterdam University Press 2 210 open access
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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.
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