No Bicycle, No Bus, No Job
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No Bicycle, No Bus, No Job

The Making of Workers’ Mobility in the Netherlands, 1920-1990

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No Bicycle, No Bus, No Job

The Making of Workers’ Mobility in the Netherlands, 1920-1990

About this book

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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Yes, you can access No Bicycle, No Bus, No Job by Patrick Bek in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Política y relaciones internacionales & Investigación y habilidades de la tecnología y la ingeniería. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Figures
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 Responding to the Transport Mismatch, 1920-1940
  10. 2 Protesting Bus Regulations during the Depression, 1926-1938
  11. 3 Mobility Austerity during War and Scarcity, 1940-1947
  12. 4 Mobility Barriers during Postwar Industrialization, 1947-1970
  13. 5 Postwar Mobility Practices, 1947-1970
  14. 6 Disciplining Cyclists and Moped Riders
  15. 7 Mobilizing Rural and Migrant Workers by Company Bus
  16. 8 Leaving Workers to their Own Devices during Deindustrialization, 1970-1990
  17. Conclusion
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index