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Fernie, S and Tennant, S (2013) The non-adoption of supply chain management. Construction Management and Economics, 31(10), 1038-58.

Loosemore, M, Chow, V and Harvison, T (2013) Inter-agency governance risk in managing hospital responses to extreme weather events in New South Wales, Australia: a facilities management perspective of shared situational awareness. Construction Management and Economics, 31(10), 1072-82.

Tutt, D, Pink, S, Dainty, A R J and Gibb, A (2013) Building networks to work: an ethnographic study of informal routes into the UK construction industry and pathways for migrant up-skilling. Construction Management and Economics, 31(10), 1025-37.

  • Type: Journal Article
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  • ISBN/ISSN: 0144-6193
  • URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/01446193.2013.834066
  • Abstract:
    The UK construction industry labour market is characterized by high levels of self-employment, subcontracting, informality and flexibility. A corollary of this, and a sign of the increasing globalization of construction, has been an increasing reliance on migrant labour, particularly that from the Eastern European Accession states. Yet, little is known about how migrant workers' experiences within and outside work shape their work in the construction sector. In this context better qualitative understandings of the social and communication networks through which migrant workers gain employment, create routes through the sector and develop their role/career are needed. We draw on two examples from a short-term ethnographic study of migrant construction worker employment experiences and practices in the town of Crewe in Cheshire, UK, to demonstrate how informal networks intersect with formal elements of the sector to facilitate both recruitment and up-skilling. Such research knowledge, we argue, offers new evidence of the importance of attending to migrant workers' own experiences in the development of more transparent recruitment processes.

Wang, X, Chen, Y, Liu, B, Shen, Y and Sun, H (2013) A total factor productivity measure for the construction industry and analysis of its spatial difference: a case study in China. Construction Management and Economics, 31(10), 1059-71.