No Bicycle, No Bus, No Job
The Making of Workers’ Mobility in the Netherlands, 1920-1990
Abstract
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.
Keywords
Governmentality, mobility, commuting, labour, mobility justiceDOI
10.5117/9789463723183ISBN
9789048556403, 9789048556403Publisher
Amsterdam University PressPublisher website
https://www.aup.nl/Publication date and place
2022Imprint
Amsterdam University PressSeries
Studies in History, Technology and Society, 2Classification
Central government policies
History of engineering & technology