Ethnographic Research in the Construction Industry by Sarah Pink Dylan Tutt Andrew Dainty

Author:Sarah Pink, Dylan Tutt, Andrew Dainty [Sarah Pink, Dylan Tutt, Andrew Dainty]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Sociology
ISBN: 9781136851117
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2012-11-12T05:00:00+00:00

Division and transience

During this time, I came to realise the extent to which the different trades were segregated from one another. While labouring, I was only really interacting with other labourers, a few painters, plasterers, and the foremen and site managers directly above me in the organisational hierarchy. Interaction with carpenters, masons, ‘mechanical and electrical’ (i.e. plumbers and electricians), scaffolders, roofers, surveyors and other groups were fleeting: they were people whom I merely said ‘alright’ to when moving around the site.

Trade divisions and transience were however central to how the building got made: the work was necessarily characterised by what might be called a trade-based ‘sequentialism’ whereby, for example, ground workers must build foundations before bricklayers can lay bricks, which must occur before carpenters affix door and window frames. Moreover, some workers, like scaffolders or glaziers for

Figure 5.1 Map of London representing trade-based residential clustering patterns at Topbuild.

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