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Picturing work in an industrial landscape

Strangleman, Tim (2012) Picturing work in an industrial landscape. Sociological Research Online, 17 (2). p. 20. ISSN 1360-7804. (doi:10.5153/sro.2683) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:34529)

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Abstract

This paper explores the notion of the visual landscape of work. Coming from a sociological perspective it attempts to view work, its meanings and the identities that surround it, through the lens of landscape. It takes on recent challenges to work sociology made by economic/labour geographers who argue that sociological understanding of employment are insufficiently spatial - space if used as a concept at all is reduced to the notion of a boundary containing economic processes rather than something that is constructed and in turn constructs work. Using material from ongoing research into the former Guinness Brewery at Park Royal in West London, and in particular a range of archival and contemporary visual sources, this paper illustrates the ways in which spatial ideas underpin complex sociological notions of work practice and culture. It will examine the way space is implicated in the location, construction, labour, and closing of this once famous brewery and how visual material helps to unlock theoretical and methodological understandings of work and industry.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.5153/sro.2683
Uncontrolled keywords: Labour Geography; Visual Sociology; Sociology of Work; Representation of Work, Place and Space
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research
Depositing User: Mita Mondal
Date Deposited: 05 Jul 2013 08:54 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:11 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/34529 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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