Professor Nicola Gregson nicky.gregson@durham.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor
This paper examines the relation between mobilities and mobile work through a focus on occupational auto-mobility and habitation. Drawing on qualitative research conducted on truck drivers/driving in South-east England, it shows habitation emerges when driving stops; that it is cab-based dwelling-in-transit and nomadic dwelling rooted in and bounded by the material culture of the cab; and that it is displaced to the margins and interstices of the road and logistical network. The paper highlights the discomfort of cab-based habitation and its limits, in sanitation, and examines how recent developments at distribution centres intensify discomfort by denying cab-based habitation. These developments recast the relation of occupational auto-mobility and habitation through transient dwelling and are key to understanding the current crisis in labour supply in truck driving.
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jul 4, 2017 |
Online Publication Date | Jul 27, 2017 |
Publication Date | Jan 1, 2018 |
Deposit Date | Jul 4, 2017 |
Publicly Available Date | Jan 27, 2019 |
Journal | Mobilities |
Print ISSN | 1745-0101 |
Electronic ISSN | 1745-011X |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis Group |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 13 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 291-307 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2017.1343987 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1356219 |
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Mobilities on 27/07/2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17450101.2017.1343987.
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