Rootedness along the way: meaningful sociality in petroleum and mining mobile worker camps
Rotational shift work, long-distance commuting (LDC) and y-in/ y-out (FIFO) have become increasingly prevalent forms of labour force provision in the resource extraction sector worldwide over the last few decades. This entails the workforce being on the move, with cycles of long shifts on site and e...
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ftunivbern:oai:boris.unibe.ch:153343 2023-08-20T04:04:35+02:00 Rootedness along the way: meaningful sociality in petroleum and mining mobile worker camps Saxinger, Gertrude 2021-02-23 application/pdf https://boris.unibe.ch/153343/7/Rootedness_along_the_way_meaningful_sociality_in_petroleum_and_mining_mobile_worker_camps.pdf https://boris.unibe.ch/153343/ eng eng Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group https://boris.unibe.ch/153343/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Saxinger, Gertrude (2021). Rootedness along the way: meaningful sociality in petroleum and mining mobile worker camps. Mobilities, 16(2), pp. 194-211. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 10.1080/17450101.2021.1885844 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2021.1885844> 300 Social sciences sociology & anthropology info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion PeerReviewed 2021 ftunivbern https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2021.1885844 2023-07-31T22:05:26Z Rotational shift work, long-distance commuting (LDC) and y-in/ y-out (FIFO) have become increasingly prevalent forms of labour force provision in the resource extraction sector worldwide over the last few decades. This entails the workforce being on the move, with cycles of long shifts on site and extended periods back home. This article draws on ethnographic eld work carried out in Arctic Russia and Subarctic Canada among petroleum and mining workers. It focusses on sociality processes in workers’ camps. I employ the notion of ‘meaningful sociality’ among camp inhabitants, which comes about when workers experience ‘rootedness along the way’. Both notions are basic elements of a long-term and satisfactory mobile and multilocal lifestyle. This article shows how the quality of rootedness, job satisfaction and wellbeing in such a labour setting are highly depen- dent on intersectional conditions of equality at interpersonal and politico- economic scales. Corporations are called upon to actively facilitate the necessary material and a ective camp conditions to enable meaningful sociality and provide an equity-based atmosphere for people to become rooted along their way. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Subarctic BORIS (Bern Open Repository and Information System, University of Bern) Arctic Canada Dent ENVELOPE(140.050,140.050,-66.649,-66.649) Mobilities 16 2 194 211 |
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Rotational shift work, long-distance commuting (LDC) and y-in/ y-out (FIFO) have become increasingly prevalent forms of labour force provision in the resource extraction sector worldwide over the last few decades. This entails the workforce being on the move, with cycles of long shifts on site and extended periods back home. This article draws on ethnographic eld work carried out in Arctic Russia and Subarctic Canada among petroleum and mining workers. It focusses on sociality processes in workers’ camps. I employ the notion of ‘meaningful sociality’ among camp inhabitants, which comes about when workers experience ‘rootedness along the way’. Both notions are basic elements of a long-term and satisfactory mobile and multilocal lifestyle. This article shows how the quality of rootedness, job satisfaction and wellbeing in such a labour setting are highly depen- dent on intersectional conditions of equality at interpersonal and politico- economic scales. Corporations are called upon to actively facilitate the necessary material and a ective camp conditions to enable meaningful sociality and provide an equity-based atmosphere for people to become rooted along their way. |
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Saxinger, Gertrude (2021). Rootedness along the way: meaningful sociality in petroleum and mining mobile worker camps. Mobilities, 16(2), pp. 194-211. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 10.1080/17450101.2021.1885844 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2021.1885844> |
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