Transience and Tunnel Esperanto: A study of multilingualism, work and relationship-building on a tunnel mining project

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (264) ◽  
pp. 163-186
Author(s):  
Kamilla Kraft
Keyword(s):  
Work Organization ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Tunnel Construction ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Mining Project ◽  
Language And Communication ◽  
Metro Tunnel ◽  
Staff Relations ◽  
Discursive Constructions

AbstractThis paper investigates multilingualism as language and communication discourses and practices in a Copenhagen metro tunnel construction project. This project is characterized by transience: continual time-space changes of work organization and staff relations combined. In this scenario, a highly international and multilingual staff composition puts focus on language and communication. Based on interviews with managers and workers from one of the project’s contractors, as well as observations of daily work in the tunnels, the analysis demonstrates participants’ discursive constructions of language and communication, sometimes linking these concepts to work, sometimes to relationship-building. I argue that these constructions are closely interlinked with the workplace’s transient status and conditions, and draw out how they have empowering as well as exploitative implications for the workers.

scholarly journals A Multivariate Modeling Analysis of Commuters’ Non-Work Activity Allocations in Xiaoshan District of Hangzhou, China

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (20) ◽  
pp. 5768
Author(s):  
Guan ◽  
Ye ◽  
Shi ◽  
Zou
Keyword(s):  
Travel Demand ◽  
Probit Model ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Work Schedules ◽  
Work Activity ◽  
Work Activities ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Modeling Analysis ◽  
Demand Models

This paper investigates the outdoor non-work activity allocation behaviors of commuters in Xiaoshan District of Hangzhou, China, as well as the underlying relationship among different types of outdoor non-work activities. As per their commute and work schedules, commuters’ outdoor non-work activities are classified into six categories and considered as binary dependent variables for modeling analysis, including from home before work, on commute way from home to work, going home during work, going out (not going home) during work, on commute way from work back home, and from home after work. Independent variables include commute attributes, work schedules, sociodemographic attributes, and built-environmental attributes. A multivariate probit model is developed to explore the effects of explanatory variables and capture correlations among unobserved influential factors. The model estimation results show that daily work time, education years, and traffic zone have substantial impacts on commuters’ non-work activity allocations. As for the underlying relationship among unobserved factors, a positive correlation is found between the outdoor non-work activities on commute way to and from work, indicating a mutually promotive relationship. All other correlations are negative, indicating other types of non-work activities are mutually substitutive. These findings will help to better understand commuters’ behaviors of outdoor activity arrangement subject to the time-space constraint from fixed work schedules, and shed some light on the mechanism of complex work tour formation, so as to guide the development of activity-based travel demand models for commuters.

scholarly journals Land Subsidence Caused by Urban Metro Tunnel Construction

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Yang Hao
Keyword(s):  
Land Subsidence ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Tunnel Construction ◽  
Safety Hazards ◽  
Tunnel Excavation ◽  
Excavation Process ◽  
Potential Safety ◽  
Metro Tunnel ◽  
And Control

<p>With the development of urban transportation, city buses are unable to accommodate daily ground transportation for the public in life, work and study; therefore, urban metro gains rapid development. However, metro tunnel construction would initiate land subsidence issues which bring significant potential safety hazards and economic losses. In order to reduce irrelevant economic losses, this paper discusses the land subsidence issues from three perspectives: analysis of land subsidence, land subsidence safety judgment and control and shallow tunnel excavation method in tunnel construction used to control land subsidence. The paper indicates that there are major geotechnical engineering issues encountered during urban metro tunnel excavation process. The individuals in charge of implementation should optimize tunnel construction regulations and ensure all works are implemented scientifically, regularly and orderly in order to reduce the impacts on land subsidence caused by tunnel construction.</p>

scholarly journals “You Feel The Threat From Asia”. Onshore Experiences of IT Offshoring To India

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha Blomqvist ◽  
Helen Peterson ◽  
Sunrita Dhar-Bhattacharjee
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Work Organization ◽  
It Services ◽  
Software Developers ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Work Tasks ◽  
It Offshoring

This article investigates the experiences of employees and managers in Swedish companies that offshore IT services to India, focusing on how implementation of offshoring is changing the work organization and working conditions for software developers onsite. Our analysis highlights the fact that the working conditions have been significantly redesigned in several different ways because of offshoring, most obviously due to the need for knowledge transfer between the onshore and the offshore working sites. The study illustrates how employees and managers onsite utilized different strategies for knowledge transfer and how these strategies were more or less successful, sometimes due to resistance from employees. The article concludes that, although offshoring contributed to a separation of conception from execution in these companies, there were few signs of routinization of daily work tasks for onsite employees. Instead, it was the routinized and noncore tasks that were offshored while project management tasks were taken over by onsite staff, which meant that they ended up in a superior position vis-à-vis their Indian colleagues as new global hierarchies were created. Power relations at work, both within firms and between firms, are thus brought to light.

Safety risk factors of metro tunnel construction in China: An integrated study with EFA and SEM

2018 ◽  
Vol 105 ◽  
pp. 98-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wen Liu ◽  
Tingshen Zhao ◽  
Wei Zhou ◽  
Jingjing Tang
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Tunnel Construction ◽  
Safety Risk ◽  
Metro Tunnel ◽  
Integrated Study
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