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Linking Gentrification and Labour Market Precarity in the Contemporary City: A Framework for Analysis
Author(s) -
Gourzis Konstantinos,
Herod Andrew,
Gialis Stelios
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
antipode
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.177
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 1467-8330
pISSN - 0066-4812
DOI - 10.1111/anti.12544
Subject(s) - gentrification , precarity , restructuring , agency (philosophy) , economic geography , sociology , capital (architecture) , flexibility (engineering) , precarious work , marketization , work (physics) , political economy , economics , labour economics , political science , economic growth , gender studies , social science , geography , law , management , mechanical engineering , archaeology , finance , china , engineering
The interplay between intensifying labour market precarity and gentrification constitutes a hitherto under‐researched topic in the fields of labour and urban geography. To rectify this lacuna, we argue that gentrification and labour flexibilisation are both socio‐spatial manifestations of capital's efforts to confront crises of accumulation. Distinguishing between what we call “weak” and “strong” links between them, and drawing upon the concepts of “gentrification‐supporting” and “gentrification‐fostered” labour flexibility, we outline a framework for connecting gentrification and precarity. This allows us to make links between the restructuring of the built environment and the reorganisation of work in the post‐industrial city; it also allows us to show how workers, through their agency, can shape rent gaps in the contemporary city.