LABOUR MOBILITY AND PARTICIPATION IN THE EXTRACTIVE...
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PROPOSED RESDA SUB-PROJECT
LABOUR MOBILITY AND PARTICIPATION IN THE EXTRACTIVE
INDUSTRIES
DR. GERTI EILMSTEINER-SAXINGER,UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA, AT TARA CATER, MA, CARLETON UNIVERSITY, CA
Remoteness of mining sites requires mobility: fly-in / fly-out and shift work operations (FIFO)
also on local level (intra-regional FIFO)
long-distance commuting (LDC)
Qualification and vocational training (educational mobility) Transport infrastructure
Labour force: highly flexible, mobile, multi-local
Requires a mobile and multi-local life-style comprising camp-life
Limited mobility and inequality (inter-regional mobility?) Mining not for everybody (disparities in communities)
How to cope and make sense out of MOBILITY and MULTILOCALITY
PROPOSED RESDA SUB-PROJECT LABOUR MOBILITY AND PARTICIPATION IN THE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES
CONTEXT
Gertrude Eilmsteiner-Saxinger , University of Vienna Tara Cater, Carleton University
PROPOSED RESDA SUB-PROJECT LABOUR MOBILITY AND PARTICIPATION IN THE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES
MY RESEARCH BACKGROUD
FIFO research in Russian North Motivation for long-distance commuting Qualification for the petroleum industry Coping with multi-locality (home <-> on site) Mobility patterns: commuting or out-migration Transport conditions
FIFO as challenge: absence, „too much leisure time“, doubled life, outmigration FIFO as opportunity: job, increased social life etc, outmigration opportunity
FIFO not necessarily negative, if facilitated and people aware of challenges and
informed about coping strategies
Spatial integration and negotiation of spaces is a gradual process (over generations…)
No everyone wants to be a miner/a FIFO keeping choice in mind
Gertrude Eilmsteiner-Saxinger , University of Vienna Tara Cater, Carleton University
PROPOSED RESDA SUB-PROJECT LABOUR MOBILITY AND PARTICIPATION IN THE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES
KEY RESEARCH QUESTIONS changing social fabrics of communities where workforce is mobile workforce out‐migrates permanently to larger urban centers in order to FIFO back
Mobility: perception, practices and motivation
Who defines mobility regimes? interaction of incoming FIFO workforce and local aboriginal workforce and entrepreneurs
Might include research on regional centres as receiving points of community outmigration
Shortcomings in contemprary Canadian mining -> e.g. gender disbalance
Gertrude Eilmsteiner-Saxinger , University of Vienna Tara Cater, Carleton University
PROPOSED RESDA SUB-PROJECT LABOUR MOBILITY AND PARTICIPATION IN THE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES
PROJECT AIMS
Comparative research: „old“ and „new“ mining regions: Yukon <-> Baffin Island (Mary River Project) Understanding FIFO related community processes and individual coping Understanding interaction of inter- and intra-regional commuters
Learning from good and negative examples (communication via community meetings, Mobile Companion Guide. others? E.g. excursions of community members Yukon <-> Baffin etc
Gertrude Eilmsteiner-Saxinger , University of Vienna Tara Cater, Carleton University
PROPOSED RESDA SUB-PROJECT LABOUR MOBILITY AND PARTICIPATION IN THE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES
RESEARCH TEAM & METHODS 3-stages of community meetings Community research assistant as communicator
Interviews with current and future workforce Interviews with stakeholders -> awareness activities of HR dept./companies Ethnographic long-term study in communities -->transfering stories and experience through science communication Gerti Eilmsteiner-Saxinger : Yukon Tara Cater: Baffin Island Community research assistant each site MA student
Gertrude Eilmsteiner-Saxinger , University of Vienna Tara Cater, Carleton University
PROPOSED RESDA SUB-PROJECT LABOUR MOBILITY AND PARTICIPATION IN THE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES
APPLIED AND SCIENTIFIC RESULTS
RAISING AWARENESS FOR MOBILITY ASPECT! The Mobility Companion Guide variety of ways of taking up a life on the move and making sense out of it
Collaboration with colleges and mining companies: prep for live in mobility Science Communication activities: media, others? (posters,
stickers,….), story-book (collaboration with local language writer?)
Community engagement and outreach (workshops, excursion between sites, peer to peer training workshops)
Publications (incl.low-threshold report), contribution to dissertation, MA thesis,…
Gertrude Eilmsteiner-Saxinger , University of Vienna Tara Cater, Carleton University