Routledge Handbook on Labour in Construction and Human Settlements

ISBN-13: 9781032201863 / Twarda / 2023 / 416 str.

Opis

This Handbook presents a detailed and comprehensive examination of the relationship between labour and the built environment, with their connections to human settlements. It synergises these critical focus areas in innovative ways.

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Spis treści

Chapter 1

Introducing the Routledge Handbook on Labour in Construction and Human Settlements: The Built Environment at Work

Chapter 2

The built environment, construction, development and their implications for labour

Chapter 3

Characteristics of the construction industry and construction process, and implications for labour policies and practices 

Chapter 4

Employment generation in the construction sector: Volatility and prospects

Chapter 5

Differing approaches to embedding low energy construction and climate literacy into vocational education and training

Chapter 6

Green jobs and climate justice in the built environment: Lessons from American cities

Chapter 7

Labour contracting, migration and wage theft in the construction industry in Qatar, China, India, US and the EU

Chapter 8

The precariat of the built environment: Decent work and the myth of Sisyphus 

Chapter 9

Human resource management and development in construction: Strategic considerations

Chapter 10

Culture in construction: A driver as well as a barrier for the improvement of labour situations within construction industry

Chapter 11

Gender, construction work, and organisation

Chapter 12

Mistreatment of migrant construction workers: Trajectory from the past to the present and into the future

Chapter 13

The smart city as the factory of the twenty-first century? How urban platforms reshape the nexus between the built environment, livelihoods, and labor

Chapter 14

Housing markets and labour markets:  Towards a new research agenda for the Global South

 Chapter 15

Social innovation of workplaces in the built environment: How public spaces have become central workplaces – Lessons from Kampala City, Uganda

Chapter 16

Building resilient workplaces: Prioritizing safety and disaster risk reduction for the global workforce

Chapter 18

Labour, the Built Environment and Human Settlements: Lessons from the book

O autorze

Edmundo Werna is a specialist in the built environment, including the construction industry and urbanism. He is widely recognized from his work on labour in construction and in human settlements during his 16 years at the ILO (International Labour Office, United Nations). He joined the London South Bank University in July 2020, after 22 years at the United Nations (UNDP and ILO). He is currently also a visiting researcher at Westminster and Oxford Brookes universities, and a member of the editorial boards of Habitat International and International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development.

George Ofori has been working on research in construction industry development since 1980. He has written four books on the construction industry and its development, and a more recent book on leadership in construction. He has experience in curating and editing collections of chapters in world-leading books on subjects in construction. Ofori is a Professor in the School of the Built Environment and Architecture at London South Bank University, UK. He is the Deputy Chair of the Board of CoST, the Infrastructure Transparency Initiative and a Member of the Board of Trustees of Engineers Against Poverty.