The role of space and place on independent worker skills development and productivity.

空间和地点对独立工人技能发展和生产力的作用。

• 批准号: 2279571
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Southampton
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2279571
• 关键词: role; space; place; independent; worker

Skills training and development represent a large part of productivity and growth throughout the national economy (Keep, Mayhew & Payne, 2006), but compared to traditional employment, independent workers (self-employed without employees) are not subsidized for their skills training and development (Kalleberg, 2000; Ekinsmyth, 2002), which leaves the responsibility to keep up with the fast moving nature of skills and networks entirely to them. To learn skills, independent workers engage with other independent workers in thick labour markets such as London and the South East (Houston & Reuschke, 2017), wherein workers can collaborate, and share knowledge (Gertler, 2008). However, many also find success in rural areas, and other, whereas other struggle to learn skills as a result of poor local economic resources, employment redundancy, parenthood, poor financial means, and lack of previous business experience. By exploring geographical context, skills requirements and how independent workers work with their surrounding resources, I hope to address two research questions: How do different areas accommodate or inhibit skills development for independent workers; And how do independent workers manage the individualized nature of their work in areas with different economic conditions? Existing datasets and quantitative methodologies may not sufficiently capture the sphere of independent worker lifestyle or skills development. Therefore, my initial research proposal intends to follow a qualitative methodology to follow case studies of independent worker, likely with a focus on two certain sectors. Further afield, the PhD, could potentially steer toward more rural ecosystems or co-urbanisation in the North of England and Scotland.

技能培训和发展代表了整个国民经济的很大一部分（Mayhew＆Payne，2006年），但是与传统就业相比，独立工人（无员工的自雇工人）没有为他们的技能培训和发展提供补贴（Kalleberg，2000; Ekinsmyth，2002年），这使他们能够保持快速发展的技能和网络的责任，并保持其能力和网络的快速发展。为了学习技能，独立工人与伦敦和东南等厚劳动力市场的其他独立工人互动（休斯顿和瑞奇克，2017年），工人可以合作并分享知识（Gertler，2008年）。但是，许多人还在农村地区和其他地区取得成功，而由于当地经济资源差，就业冗余，育儿，财务状况不佳以及缺乏以前的商业经验，其他努力学习技能。通过探索地理环境，技能要求以及独立工人如何与周围的资源合作，我希望解决两个研究问题：不同领域如何适应或抑制独立工人的技能发展；独立工人如何在经济条件不同的领域管理其工作的个性化性质？现有的数据集和定量方法可能无法充分捕获独立工人生活方式或技能发展的领域。因此，我最初的研究建议旨在遵循定性方法，以遵循独立工人的案例研究，可能着重于两个某些部门。在更远的地方，博士可以潜在地迈向英格兰北部和苏格兰北部的更多农村生态系统或共同化。