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(Hazardous) Labour and the Making of the City

  • Julie Clark (Invited speaker)
  • Jeffery, G. (Invited speaker)
  • Vidya Sagar Pancholi (Invited speaker)

Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Description

The workshop, linked to an ongoing ESRC project, invites a discussion on historical and contemporary labour regimes and urban politics in relation to different forms of work implicated in the production of the city. Participants discuss the lived realities of urban workers, whose labour in the production of city-space is often marked by contradictions of in/visibility, and whose methods of accessing city-space are stuck between regimes of legality and illegality or legitimacy and illegitimacy (Chhabria,2019). Such workers are not only inadequately renumerated but also marked by marginalisation of caste, race, religion, gender, alongside class. Their livelihoods put them in harm’s way, through exposure to health risks and accidents, threats to identity, and abuse through moral policing and social stigma accruing to work that is considered ‘unclean’.
Period23 Jun 2023
Event typeWorkshop
LocationLancaster, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational

UN SDGs

This activity contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
  2. SDG 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation
    SDG 6 Clean Water and Sanitation
  3. SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
    SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
  4. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
  5. SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
    SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

Keywords

  • urban studies
  • Waste
  • Health
  • Work
  • informal economy