Contacts and contracts: Economic embeddedness and ethnic stratification in London’s construction market
Contacts and contracts: Economic embeddedness and ethnic stratification in London’s construction market
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联系人和合同：伦敦建筑市场的经济嵌入和种族分层
DOI：
10.1177/1466138110370496
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发表时间：
2010
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影响因子：
1.2
通讯作者：
Darren Thiel
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作者：
Darren Thiel
关于经济市场的构成和运作的辩论往往忽视其经验上的可变性，而且往往不承认劳动力和合同市场的具体性质。基于一年的参与者观察伦敦建筑工地在2003/4，本文展示了劳动力和合同市场是如何非正式的监管和复制，其特点是替代交换形式，有时涉及非法行为。非正式的社交网络链、其习俗以及结社和交换的方法，关闭了市场的竞争，并形成了种族分层模式的发展。这些模式被与高度放松管制的建筑市场相关的强大的社会联系所锁定，并逐渐构成了建筑市场。这揭示了建筑经济在社会上主要植根于最终以暴力为基础的“道德经济”，这对市场经济社会学的许多主张提出了质疑。
Debates over the constitution and operation of economic markets tend to neglect their empirical variability and frequently fail to recognize the specific qualities of labour and contract markets. Based on one year’s participant observation on a London construction site in 2003/4, this article demonstrates how labour and contract markets were informally regulated and reproduced, characterized by alternative exchange forms that sometimes involved illegitimate practices. Chains of informal social networks, their mores and methods of association and exchange, closed down the markets to competition and framed the development of ethnic stratification patterns. The patterns were locked in place by strong social ties that had formed in relation to the highly deregulated construction marketplace, and which came to constitute it. This revealed the construction economy as predominately socially embedded in a ‘moral economy’ that was ultimately underpinned by violence, putting into question numerous claims from the economic sociology of markets.