ABSTRACT

The construction workforce and its relationship with the resources industries is an under-researched sector of the mobile labour market. While it is broadly assumed that the construction workforce is an integral part of the resources industry, those with a familiarity with resource boomtowns perceive the construction workforce to be different or ‘other’, mostly viewing the workers to be socially, economically and culturally inferior with different values, practices and rewards. The ‘new mobilities paradigm’ and Employment-Related Geographical Mobility provide useful frameworks to examine the nuances of mobile workers, placing mobility at the centre of an assessment of paid work and socio-economic differentiation in Western Australian resources boomtown settings. The lived experience of construction workers and their families are interrogated providing an insight into the complex and unequal ‘relatedness’ of the sector to the resources industries, another sector employing a mobile workforce.

摘要

建筑工人及其与资源行业的关系是流动劳动力市场研究不足的领域。尽管人们普遍认为建筑工人是资源行业不可或缺的一部分，但是熟悉资源繁荣城市的人却认为建筑工人是不同的或“其他”的，他们大多认为工人在社会，经济和文化上不如工人。不同的价值观，做法和奖励。“新流动性范例”和与就业相关的地理流动性提供了有用的框架，以检查流动工人的细微差别，从而将流动性置于西澳大利亚州资源繁荣城市环境中有偿工作和社会经济差异评估的中心。