Two Social Environments in a Working Day: Occupation and Spatial Segregation in Metropolitan Tel Aviv

Orna Blumen and Iris Zamir
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Orna Blumen: Department of Human Services, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa 31905, Israel
Iris Zamir: Interuniversity Centre for Social Science Theory and Methodology, Department of Sociology, University of Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 1, 3584 CS Utrecht, The Netherlands

Environment and Planning A, 2001, vol. 33, issue 10, 1765-1784

Abstract: The concepts of segregation and social distance have long been used to explain the social environment of stratified residential space. However, the social significance of occupation, though acknowledged, has rarely been applied spatially. In this study, we employed these three concepts to examine the social environment of the entire metropolitan employment space as defined by job location. Smallest space analysis was used to identify and compare the sociospatial segregation produced by workers' occupational distribution in employment and residential spheres. This empirical study focused on metropolitan Tel Aviv, Israel's largest urban area, using the latest available national census. Our findings show that the social milieu of employment differed from that of residence: blue-collar workers were segregated from white-collar workers; managers, clerks, and salespersons formed the core group; and gender and ethnic divisions characterised the sociospatial realm of employment. Overall, most employees changed their social environment when they went to work. The study indicates that spatial segregation, within each sphere and between the two spheres, is intrinsic to the capitalist – patriarchal order.

Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1068/a3452

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