'This is special humour': Visual narratives of Polish masculinities on London's building sites

Polish Migration to the UK in the 'New' European Union: After 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 189-210

  Datta, Ayona ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952941733     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

References (35)

1. Applebaum, H. (1981), Royal Blue: The Culture of Construction Workers (New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston).
2. Berg, L. and Longhurst, R. (2003), 'Placing Masculinities and Geography', Gender, Place, and Culture 10:4, 351-60.
3. Collinson, D. and Hearn, J. (1996), "Men' at 'work'": Multiple Masculinities/ Multiple Workplaces', in Mac an Ghaill (ed.).
4. Cornwall, A. and Lindisfarne, N. (1994), Dislocating Masculinity: Comparative Ethnographies (London: Routledge).
5. Currie, S. (2006), 'Free Movers? The Post-accession Experience of Accession- 8 Migrant Workers in the United Kingdom', European Law Review 31:2, 207-29.
6. Datta, A. (2008), 'Building Differences: Material Geographies of Home(s) among Polish Builders in London', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 33:4, 518-31.
7. Datta, A. (2009), 'Places of Everyday Cosmopolitanisms: East-European Construction Workers in London', Environment and Planning A.
8. Datta, A. and Brickell, K. (2009), '"We have a Little Bit More Finesse as a Nation": Constructing the Polish Worker in London's Building Sites', Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography.
9. Eade, J., Drinkwater, S. and Garapich, M.P. (2007), Class and Ethnicity: Polish Migrant Workers in London - Full Research Report. ESRC End of Award Report, RES-000-22-1294 (Swindon: Economic and Social Research Council).
10. Einhorn, B. (2006), 'Gender(ed) Politics in Central and Eastern Europe', Journal of Global Ethics 2:2, 139-62.
11. Fidelis, M. (2004), 'Equality through Protection: The Politics of Women's Employment in Postwar Poland, 1945-1956', Slavic Review 63:2, 301-24.
12. Freeman, J. (1983), 'Hardhats: Construction Workers, Manliness, and the 1970 Pro-war Demonstration', Journal of Social History 26:4, 725-44.
13. Gal, S. and Kligman, G. (2000), The Politics of Gender After Socialism (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press).
14. Gregory, C. (2006), 'Among the Dockhands: Another Look at Working-Class Male Culture', Men and Masculinities 9:2, 252-60.
15. Heinen, J. (1997), 'Social and Political Citizenship in Eastern Europe', Theory and Society 26:4, 577-97.
16. Home Office, Department for Work and Pensions, HM Revenue & Customs and Communities and Local Government (2007), Accession Monitoring Report March 2004-May 2007. , accessed 19 March 2008.
17. HPSC (2005), 'Building London, Saving Lives: Improving Health and Safety in Construction', Health and Public Services Committee , accessed 23 April 2008.
18. IFF (2003), 'Workforce Mobility and Skills in the Construction Sector in London and the South East', Research Report prepared for Construction Skills, ECITB, SEEDA and DTI, London , accessed 21 July 2008.
19. Iglicka, K. (2001), 'Migration Movements from and into Poland in the Light of East-West European Migration', International Migration 39:1, 3-32.
20. Jordan, B. (2002), 'Migrant Polish Workers in London: Mobility, Labour Markets and the Prospects for Democratic Development'. Paper presented at 'Beyond Transition: Development Perspectives and Dilemmas', Warsaw , accessed 13 July 2008.
21. Kenny, P. (1999), 'The Gender of Resistance in Communist Poland', American Historical Review 104:2, 399-425.
22. Kligman, G. (1996), 'Women and the Negotiation of Identity in Post-Communist Eastern Europe', in Identities in Transition: Eastern Europe and Russia After the Collapse of Communism, University of California International and Area Studies Digital Collection 93, 68-91 , accessed 15 July 2008.
23. Mac an Ghaill, M. (ed.) (1996), Understanding Masculinities (Buckingham: Open University Press).
24. Mac an Ghaill, M. (2000), 'The Irish in Britain: The Invisibility of Ethnicity and Anti-Irish Racism', Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 26:1, 137-47.
25. McDowell, L. (2002), 'Masculine Discourses and Dissonances: Strutting "Lads", Protest Masculinity, and Domestic Respectability', Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 20:1, 97-119.
26. McDowell, L. (2003), Redundant Masculinities? Employment Change and White Working Class Youth (Oxford: Blackwell).
27. Nast, H. and Pile, S. (eds) (1998), Places Through the Body (London: Routledge).
28. Nye, R. (2005), 'Locating Masculinity: Some Recent Work on Men', Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 30:3, 1937-1962.
29. Paap, K. (2006), Working Construction: Why White Working-Class Men Put Themselves - and the Labor Movement - in Harm's Way (Ithaca: ILR Press).
30. Rukszto, K. (1997), 'Making her into a "Woman": The Creation of Citizen-Entrepreneur in Capitalist Poland', Women's Studies International Forum 20:1, 103-12.
31. Smith, A., Stenning, A., Rochovská, A. and Światek, D. (2008), 'The Emergence of a Working Poor: Labour Markets, Neoliberalisation and Diverse Economies in Post-Socialist Cities', Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography 40:2, 283-311.
32. Spencer, S., Ruhs, M., Anderson, B. and Rogaly, B. (2007), Migrants' Lives Beyond the Workplace: The Experiences of Central and East Europeans in the UK (York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation).
33. Van Hoven, B. and Horschelmann, K. (eds) (2005), Spaces of Masculinities (London: Routledge).
34. Watson, P. (1993), 'The Rise of Masculinism in Eastern Europe', New Left Review I/198, 71-82.
35. Watson, P. (2000), 'Re-Thinking Transition: Globalism, Gender and Class', International Feminist Journal of Politics 2:2, 185-213.