Workers' Dilemmas Recruitment, Reliability and Repeated Exchange: An Analysis of Urban Social Networks and Labour Circulation

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Dedicaiton
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction and Outline of Central Themes
	Anomie or Interdependency? Reputation, Reliability and Repeated Exchange
	All Change? The Implications of Team Membership for Employment Choice: A Workforce Dilemma
	The Nature of the Text
	The Structure of the Book
2 Rural Skills in the Urban Occupational Repertoire: A Critique of \'Urbanist\' Orthodoxy
	Introduction: Occupational Repertoires, Skill Portfolios and Household Co-Ordination
	Labour Circulation: A Communal Form of Migration
	Social Networks and Labour History: Time for a Re-Examination
	Individual Employment Choice or Household and Community Relocation: The Scale of the Migration
	Conclusion
3 The Role of Urban Social Networks in the Organisation of Rural Employment
	Introduction: Social Networks as Search and Synchronisation Structures
	Neighbouring: A Local Analysis or a Migrant Practice?
	Family Size and Household Organisation: Family Discipline or Work Group Control?
	The Value of the Newly Migrant: Irish Labour in English Fields
	Industrial Employment and Family Labour: Household Organisation and Reservoirs of Booster Labour
	Conclusion
4 Organising the Household Finances: The Contribution of Women\'s Rural Wages to Urban Budgeting
	Introduction: Casual Employment or Critical Competence – The Importance of Seasonal Earnings
	A Sizeable Sum: Control Over Consolidated Earnings and Its Implications for Household Power
	Credit or Debt: Rural Earnings as Security in Annual Budgeting
	Buying on the Spot: The Preservation of Female Control Over Resources
	Hopping – One Cog in a Wheel: The Female Cycle of Employment
	Spreading the Risk: The Role of Matri-Local Structures
	Conclusion
5 A Festival for Labour: Redressing the Damage of Urban Living
	Introduction: Beyond \'The Smoke\' – The Journey Into Fresh Air
	A Fair Share of Country Fare: A Change in Women\'s Diet
	Shed or \'Chalet\'? The Quality of Rural Accommodation
	Freedom to Breathe: The Space for Female Conviviality
	Shared Cares: Collective Child Care
	Girls\' Talk: A Scheduled Break From the Time-Table of Marriage
	Conclusion
6 Social Networks and the Transmission of Occupational Skills
	Introduction: The Importance of Social Synchronisation for Productive Efficiency in the Workplace
	The Case for Collective Skill: Some Clues in the Existing Literature
	Collective Skill and Network Organisation: An Analytic Description of Labour Market Practice
	Collective Skill at Work: Training and Work Practices on the Hop Fields
	Collective Skill: A Dying Practice or an Unresearched Art? Some Likely Candidates for Investigation
	Conclusion
7 Reproduction of the Urban Neighbourhood in a Rural Setting: The Commercial Dimension
	Introduction: Commercial Travelling or Transported Commerce? The Journeying of Urban Traders to Rural Pastures
	A Steady Trade: The Ties between Traders and Neighbourhood Business
	Peak Purchasing and Quality Custom: The Role of Hop Earnings in Ensuring a High Volume of Trade
	Discouraged Trade: Local Traders\' Distrust of London Custom
	\'Neighbourhood Shops\': Equipment for Cultural Continuity
	Conclusion
8 Strengthening the \'Dangerous Classes\' Stereotype: The Role of the Religious Missions
	Introduction: The Construction of \'Dangerous Classes\' Stereotypes
	\'Slums\' or \'Small Commonwealths\'? The Character of London Neighbourhoods
	Moral Improvement: The Urban Programme of the \'Missions\'
	Following the Flock: The Presence of the \'Missions\' on the Hop Field
	Practical Services, Spiritual Objectives: Tea Carts, Baths and the Search for Redeemed Souls
	Broom Jumping: A Tall Tale? The Moral Panic Around the Perceived Hedonism of the Hop Field
	Conclusion
9 The Employers\' Perspective: Securing a Reliable Source of Labour
	Introduction: The Mass Demand for Labour and the Need for Prior Organisation
	Family Discipline: A Double Control – Shifting the Costs of Disruptions in Production
	Growing Up in the Trade: The \'Normalising\' of Specialist Skills
	A Working Package: Collective Work Groups and Tied Accommodation – Their Role in Reducing Turnover
	The Hopping Letter: A Tool for Control
	Breaking a Connection: The Shedding of Old Workers and Hiring of New
	Social Hooligans, Disciplined Labour: Resolving the Paradox
	Conclusion
10 Conclusion: Collective Skill – The End of a Tradition, The End of a Community?
	Hopping: An Inventory of Workers\' Dilemmas
	Grape-Vine Training and Employment Recruitment Processes: The Importance of Making the Connection
	Transportable Lives, Transportable Concepts?
	The Search for New Forms of Collective Skill: Some Possible Locations
	Collective Skill, Communication and Community: The Importance of Social Organisation within the New European Labour Market
	Technological Tensions: An End to Mobility? The resurrection of the Working Neighbourhood
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