Commuters and community on Bell Island: an ethnography of ferry mobilities and social reproduction ...
This thesis draws on ethnographic fieldwork with commuting workers residing on Bell Island—a ferry-reliant community located in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. At the time of fieldwork in 2015, registered work commuters traveling daily from and to Bell Island comprised approximately one-f...
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Memorial University of Newfoundland
2024
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.48336/fd2q-cs56 https://research.library.mun.ca/16375/ |
| Summary: | This thesis draws on ethnographic fieldwork with commuting workers residing on Bell Island—a ferry-reliant community located in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. At the time of fieldwork in 2015, registered work commuters traveling daily from and to Bell Island comprised approximately one-fourth of the island’s population. The commute itself is multimodal, involving a five-kilometre ferry trip across a short stretch of ocean, as well as travel by road at either end of the ferry. This thesis was undertaken as part of a large team project called On the Move Partnership, researching employment-related geographical mobility in the Canadian context. In studying the work-related mobilities of Bell Island ferry commuters, this research engages with literature on social reproduction and considers individual, household, and community-level patterns of unpaid labour. This thesis used ethnographic fieldwork methods of participant observation, unstructured interviews, and semi-structured interviews with Bell ... |
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