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Fevre, Ralph. "Subcontracting in Steel." Work, Employment and Society 1, no. 4 (December 1987): 509–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0950017087001004006.

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Research on the UK construction industry has identified growth in the use of subcontractors as one explanation for the increased number of small firms (and self-employed workers) in that industry. Other research suggests that there has been growth in the use of contractors in manufacturing industry: has the construction industry pattern been replicated in any manufacturing industry? Data from the steel industry suggests that it has: in steel the increased use of subcontractors has accompanied the increased use of contractors. At BSC Port Talbot, for example, an informal cartel of established, local contractors has been replaced by large national contractors who make use of `cowboy' subcontractors. These subcontractors are economically dependent on the larger firms but legally distinct. The fact that steel turns out to be so similar to the construction industry raises doubts about the `special' circumstances which were thought to have led to the growth of subcontracting in construction.
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Yoke-Lian, Lew. "Review of Subcontracting Practice in Construction Industry." International Journal of Engineering and Technology 4, no. 4 (2012): 442–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.7763/ijet.2012.v4.406.

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SOZEN, ZEYNEP, and MEHMET ALI KUCUK. "Secondary subcontracting in the Turkish construction industry." Construction Management and Economics 17, no. 2 (March 1999): 215–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/014461999371718.

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Akinwale, A. A., and O. A. Olusanya. "Influence of Subcontracting Processes on Wages and Workloads in the Building Construction Industry in Nigeria." Journal of Construction Business and Management 4, no. 2 (December 4, 2020): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.15641/jcbm.4.2.788.

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There is a paucity of information on the experience of subcontracted work despite the widespread use of subcontracting in the building construction industry. This study examined the influence of subcontracting processes on wages and workloads in the building construction industry in Nigeria. Data collection for the study was based on a cross-sectional research design with a survey research strategy, including a structured questionnaire and some key informant interviews. A sample of 908 subcontracted workers was randomly selected from 388 building construction sites in Lagos State, Nigeria. Data obtained from the structured questionnaire were subjected to descriptive statistics and regression analysis, while an ethnographic technique was used to analyze the data from the interviews. The regression results (β = –0.046; p < 0.05) showed that to some extent subcontracting processes significantly influenced workers’ participation in wage determination; and that the regression results (β = –0.040; p < 0.05) revealed that to some extent subcontracting processes significantly influenced workers’ participation in the determination of workloads in the building construction industry in Nigeria. Wages and workloads are inappropriate when the degree of influence of the subcontracting process on workers' participation in the determination of wages and workloads in the building construction industry is considered. These findings imply that working in a subcontracting system could promote the alienation of subcontracted workers from the determination of wages and workloads, thereby showing the need for adequate protection for the affected workers. Therefore, the subcontracted workers in Lagos state should strengthen their associations to achieve justice and decent work in the building construction industry. Keywords: Building Construction; Subcontracted Workers; Wages; Workload.
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Olusanya, Olasunmbo Ayanfeoluwa. "Subcontracting Systems and Social Protection in the Informal Building Construction Industry in Lagos, Nigeria." Journal of Construction Business and Management 2, no. 1 (January 3, 2018): 10–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.15641/jcbm.2.1.91.

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Subcontracting systems are entrenched in the building construction process in Nigeria. However, the implications for informal building construction industry workers' access to social protection measures are a cause for concern. This study examined the influence of subcontracting systems on access to social protection measures by workers in the informal building construction industry in Lagos, Nigeria, based on a cross-sectional research design, agency theory and the general theory of employment. The secondary and primary data used for the study were derived from a systematic review of relevant literature, a questionnaire administered to 908 respondents and 50 key informant interviews among informal building construction workers and subcontractors. The structured questionnaire was subjected to internal and external validity; the Cronbach's Alpha reliability test of the survey stood at 0.722. Data extracted from the structured questionnaire and interviews were analysed through the use of descriptive statistics, correlational analysis and narrative analysis. Findings revealed that workers got financial and health assistance from employers and government respectively. Results also show that informal building construction workers perceived provision of social protection as inadequate. The results of Pearson Correlation indicate that subcontracting systems have an inverse and statistically significant relationship with access to free or subsidised medical care, the remedy to accident on site and pattern of savings. Therefore, subcontracting systems influenced the availability of social protection measures significantly. Based on the findings and the important roles of subcontractors in the building construction industry, it is recommended that appropriate legislative instrument should be developed to address the challenges posed by subcontracting concerning access to social protection measures in the informal building construction industry. It is also suggested that steps should be taken by the government to promote formalisation of employment in the informal sector and support community-based social insurance schemes in Nigeria. Keywords: Building construction, Informal economy, Lagos, Social protection, Subcontracting systems.
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Yik, F. WH, J. HK Lai, K. T. Chan, and E. CY Yiu. "Problems with specialist subcontracting in the construction industry." Building Services Engineering Research and Technology 27, no. 3 (August 2006): 183–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/0143624406bse160oa.

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Choudhry, Rafiq M., Jimmie W. Hinze, Muhammad Arshad, and Hamza F. Gabriel. "Subcontracting Practices in the Construction Industry of Pakistan." Journal of Construction Engineering and Management 138, no. 12 (December 2012): 1353–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(asce)co.1943-7862.0000562.

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Mambwe, M., E. M. Mwanaumo, F. Phiri, and K. Chabota. "The Construction Subcontracting Policy Framework for Developing Local Contractors Capacities in Zambia." Journal of Construction Business and Management 4, no. 1 (April 27, 2020): 60–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.15641/jcbm.4.1.644.

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The Zambian construction industry, like many developing countries, has over the past years experienced an imbalance in the distribution of works between local and foreign contractors. In a bid to bridge the gap, the Government of the Republic of Zambia in 2012 introduced a policy on subcontracting which provided for mandatory subcontracting of 20% of all major contracts to local contractors. There has however been outcries from subcontractors that the policy has not been beneficial. The study sought to investigate subcontracting practices in order to develop a framework for building capacity for local contractors within the construction industry in Zambia. The objective of the study was to explore the regulatory requirements on subcontracting in Zambia and establish the 20% subcontracting policy inadquescies . The study adopted the mixed-method approach in which both semi-structured interviews (main contractors, sub-contractors consultants and project owners) and survey questionnaire were adopted for primary data collection. The questionnaire was distributed to 70 respondents and a response rate of 71% was attained. The investigation was conducted on 40 projects implemented in Zambia between 2012 and 2015. The study established four major deficiencies of the policy which include: subcontractors do not participate early in the procurement process and are introduced after contract is awarded; no clear guidelines on the implementation of the policy; subcontractors do not take part in determining works; and it is difficult to grow capacity of local contractors using the 20% subcontracting policy because contractors engaged to be main on projects do not show interest in developing and building local contractors capacity due to lack of incentives. A framework was developed that can be used to meet the study objectives and that of the policy in subcontracting and reduce the current inadequacies. The study recommended the use of the proposed framework by the government to reduce the current gaps.
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Yi, Sohoon, and Jennifer Jihye Chun. "Building worker power for day laborers in South Korea’s construction industry." International Journal of Comparative Sociology 61, no. 2-3 (December 4, 2019): 122–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020715219889383.

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This article examines how unions build worker power for day laborers in South Korea’s construction industry in the context of widespread informality. Drawing upon regional case studies of the Korean Construction Workers Union (KCWU), we find that construction day laborers experience poor working conditions and rampant employment violations under multiple layers of subcontracting that enable capital to bypass existing labor laws and regulations. Despite the regulatory challenges of complex subcontracting systems, unions can still exert direct pressure on firms to improve informal working conditions by securing and enforcing creative collective agreements. Key to this process is the development of regionally-specific forms of worker power that target firms located higher up the subcontracting chain to take responsibility for informal working conditions. Although the scope of influence varies depending on the type of worker power that unions cultivate (e.g. structural, associational, and symbolic), each form of worker power has enabled unions in different regional contexts to establish uniform standards regarding job quality and job security despite formal restrictions on the legal authority of unions as bargaining agents for informal workers. While such approaches require a high level of organizational and strategic capacity, they demonstrate the ongoing relevance of unions in challenging the global turn to informal work through workplace organizing and collective bargaining.
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Zhang, Shui Bo, Junying Chen, and Yafan Fu. "Contract complexity and trust in construction project subcontracting." Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management 27, no. 9 (May 2, 2020): 2477–500. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ecam-02-2019-0113.

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to unpack the “black box” of the relationship between contract and inter-organizational trust, both theoretically and empirically. Two mediators, namely perceived safeguard and restriction, are identified to build up two seemingly contrary possible paths between contract and trust from current literature. Both paths are tested in the context of Chinese construction industry due to our access to sample.Design/methodology/approachA survey of 295 contractor-subcontractor relationships from Chinese construction industry was conducted. A three-step multiple regression model was employed to test the mediating effect of perceived safeguard and restriction. Then, a hierarchical regression model was used to test the possible moderating effect of bilateral transaction-specific investment.FindingsThe empirical results support the mediating effect of perceived safeguard between contract and trust in the construction subcontracting industry. Bilateral transaction-specific investments enhance the positive effect of contract on safeguard perception.Originality/valueTheoretically, this study contributes to governance literature by opening up the “black box” of the relationship between contract and trust. It provides a better understanding of how and when contract complexity impacts trust, instead of simply focusing on whether contract and trust act as complements or substitutes. Practically, this study provides guidelines for construction firms to decide the degree of contract complexity under various degrees of bilateral transaction-specific investments to enhance the other party’s trust, so as to improve performance outcomes.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Construction industry Victoria Subcontracting"

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Yau, Hok-wing John. "A study of subcontracting in the Hong Kong construction industry and its impact on the management of quality /." [Hong Kong] : University of Hong Kong, 1991. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13055161.

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Lai, Man-yi Mandy, and 黎敏兒. "A review of the subcontracting systems in the Hong Kong construction industry." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1987. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31262296.

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Wong, Rachel Hiu Kam. "The making of construction workers : subjectivity, collectivity and the multi-layered subcontracting system in the Hong Kong construction industry /." View abstract or full-text, 2005. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?SOSC%202005%20WONG.

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Paul, Anand Abraham. "Stochastic models in the analysis of project subcontracting and robustness to variability in project networks." Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p9992885.

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Yau, Hok-wing John, and 游學榮. "A study of subcontracting in the Hong Kong construction industry and its impact on the management of quality." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1991. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31265133.

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陳健旋 and Kin-shuen Martin Chan. "A study of sub-contracting system and its impact on construction health and safety in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3125147X.

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Mumford, Peter John. "Enhancing performance-based regulation : lessons from New Zealand's building control system : a thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy [in Public Policy] /." ResearchArchive@Victoria e-Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/1206.

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Zhang, Zi-Wen, and 張子文. "Establishing a Decision Model of Construction Industry for Using Own Resources or Subcontracting." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/23086709628886863496.

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國立中央大學
土木工程學系碩士在職專班
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For the production unit of a construction industry, the strategic decisions to choose between using own resources or subcontracting on production is often a necessity, no matter for upstream major contractors, downstream subcontractors and expert subcontractors. Because, these decisions are one of the major factors for production cost. It’s often a practice that most local constructors rely on the previous experiences or simple traditional ways for the evaluation and conclusion of such decisions, which, caused the incompleteness on the evaluation for these cost factors and usually result in the misjudgement, of the actual cost structures. This research has being focused on and provided another implement and pattern of logic thinking for such decision making to local constructors, through the method of mathematical programs and computing software. It has being categorized into three type model， for building the solution pattern in this research and the scope of it has being confined in simple cost analysis on equipment and human resource in each respective category of cost factors, in order to reflect types of problems and factors affecting decision making in practice. All patterns in this research has being set to integer programs。 Steps of obtaining the solutions are to figure the executive input file first, and then rule with mathematical programs together with LINGO software. Finally, comparison between this method and traditional method and adaptability in practice will be obtained through the tests on actual examples and sensibility analysis.
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GUAN, ZHEN-YUAN, and 官振源. "A Study on Core Suppliers and Modifying of Subcontracting Strategy in Construction Industry." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96795420682994069384.

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國立高雄應用科技大學
土木工程與防災科技研究所
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Can the construction company consider integrating subcontractors in order to strengthen its competitiveness under the economic downturn or economic fluctuation replacing the original subcontract policy? Perhaps, the construction company can subsume the subcontractors into its management team (called A-type integration in this research). Or, the engineers who have worked in the construction industry establish the comprehensive subcontractor company and manage it on their own (called B-type integration). In addition to taking the projects from the parent company, the subsidiary company can be in charge of other companies’ projects. The main motive and purpose of this research are to survey what construction company can do by changing the cooperation mode with its subcontractors or partners in order to improve its competitiveness, and to study the relationship with different characteristic regular teams and the regular team relationship effects upon management achievements. There are total 300 questionnaires and 121 valid ones were collected back. Through this survey, the regular team condition in each construction company, for example, the number, cooperation state, investment or project handling situation and etc, will be studied thoroughly; moreover, the relationship between the instructions from the parent company and the achievements will be analyzed as well. The analysis results and suggestions are as followed: 1.To maintain long-term cooperation relationship. That is, most construction companies adopt regular subcontract team policy. Nevertheless, research finds that 4.2% construction companies have begun to integrate their subcontractors. 2.Construction companies having the idea to integrate their subcontractors reaches 35.0%, among which, the steelwork and molding board constructions are the top integration choices. 3.It has magnificent inducement for construction companies to conduct integration with finds of 30% profits existing in steelwork and molding board constructions by comparing the construction materials with contract cost. As for the integration intention part, A type occupies 26.6% while B type is 8.4%. 4.It possesses obvious positivity in the detail aspects of the regular team capacity and entire management achievements, which means that to strengthen regular teams will indeed reinforce achievements.
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Liu, Wei-cheng, and 劉韋呈. "A Research on Subcontracting Management of Residential Construction Industry : A Balanced Scorecard Perspective." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/78611625583653018974.

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國立屏東科技大學
企業管理系所
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This research is to construct a performance evaluation system in Subcontracting Management of Residential Construction Industry based on the model of Balanced Scorecard. A survey of 116 personnel of 60 local Residential Construction Companies in Kaohsiung and Pingtung Regions is conducted by questionnaires to build a performance evaluation model for local Residential Construction Companies.The model also renders useful reference for Residential Construction Industry in establishing a Subcontracting Management performance evaluation system. As the most important indicator of the goals of the four dimension, The research indicates that financial dimension indicators, advancing the growth rate of Sales and reducing the superadd cost, are important to performance. In the customer dimension indicators such as reducing the frequency of the customer’s complaint, reducing the time to response to customer, and the elevation of the rate of the accomplishment are crucial. Internal process dimension indicators including planning the graph of the pace completely, investigating the public praise of the contractors, cataloging the right and obligation for proprietor and contractors, reducing the frequency of the accident, increasing the frequency of the council, examining the overall rate of the blemishs are important. Employee learning dimension indicators such as raising the numbers of the employee’s professed licenses, forming a department of Subcontracting management, raising the frequencies of the employee’s proffers and proposals are most important. We examine all indicators of every dimension by factor analysis to integrate all indicators into fewer factors. Two factors represent financial dimension, raising the growth of the revenue and enhancing the control of the cost, accounted for 65% variance explained. Customer dimension can be explained by three factors, advancing the construction’s quality, advancing the ministrant quality and enhancing the control of the pach, accounted for 73% variance explained. Internal process includes eight factors, enhancing the force of constraint of the contracts, planning the blueprint of the subcontracting completely, choicing qualified contactors, kepping a partnership, overseeing the locales, making the subcontracting’s detail public, examing the quality and pace, accounted for 76% variance explained. Learning dimension can be represented by three factors, advancing professional ability, advancing management ability, and advancing innovational ability, accounted for 66% variance explained. Through ANOVA analysis, the cognition of performance has significant difference within numbers of employee, capitalization, turnover, department, position, age, employee working years and incumbent years. There is no significant difference on employee education. This research further examines the strategy map by path analysis. The results indicate that the linking of goal has the causal relation truly, Especially the leading and the motion indicators of the subcontacting management to achievement the customer’s satisfaction and financial performance are successful.Justifying the theory of the Balanced Scorecard.
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Books on the topic "Construction industry Victoria Subcontracting"

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Keating, Geoffrey T. Construction subcontracting: Course manual. [Washington, D.C.] (1120 20th St., N.W., Washington 20036): Federal Publications, 1987.

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Keating, Geoffrey T. Construction subcontracting: Course manual. [Washington, D.C.] (1120 20th St., NW, Washington 20036): Federal Publications Inc., 1986.

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Barnes, Peter. Subcontracting under the JCT 2005 forms. Oxford, U.K: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.

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Anderson, Currie Overton, Sweeney Neal J, and Hafer Randall F, eds. Construction subcontracting: A legal guide for industry professionals. New York: Wiley Law Publications, 1991.

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Construction subcontracting: A comprehensive practical and legal guide. Chicago, Illinois: American Bar Association, Forum on the Construction Industry, 2014.

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Construction, Law Seminar (9th 1988 Charlottesville Va ). Construction law for subcontractors. [Charlottesville, Va.]: The Foundation, 1988.

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Roger, Flanagan, and Chartered Institute of Building (Great Britain), eds. The changing role of specialist and trade contractors. Ascot: Chartered Institute of Building, 1989.

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Die Rechtsstellung des Subunternehmers bei Einflussnahmen des Bauherrn auf seine Wirkleistung. [Freiburg im Breisgau?: s.n.], 1990.

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Sablier, Bertrand. Le guide de la sous-traitance dans la construction: La pratique juridique, conseils, lettres types. Paris: Editions du Moniteur, 1985.

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Chuah, Christopher. Standard form of sub-contracts: An annotation. Singapore: Butterworths Asia, 2001.

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Book chapters on the topic "Construction industry Victoria Subcontracting"

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Sui Pheng, Low, and Sim Jia Zheng. "Nature of the Construction Industry." In Construction Productivity in the Multilayer Subcontracting System, 9–19. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1831-3_2.

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Sui Pheng, Low, and Sim Jia Zheng. "Case of Singapore’s Construction Industry." In Construction Productivity in the Multilayer Subcontracting System, 21–27. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1831-3_3.

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Cheelo, Caesar, and Robert Liebenthal. "The Construction Sector in Zambia." In Mining for Change, 397–421. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198851172.003.0018.

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The construction sector plays a critical role in delivering quality infrastructure, which in turn influences the use of natural resource revenues towards achieving structural change and development. We use industrial organization and political economy lenses to describe and understand the organization of and changes in the construction industry in Zambia, focusing on demand-side factors; supply-side issues; market interactions through prices and costs; and public institutions, regulations, policies, and structures. We establish the main firm-level, industry-wide, and macroeconomic bottlenecks affecting Zambia’s construction sector, and offer options for dealing with the key bottlenecks. We suggest institutional reforms and legal and regulatory changes governing procurement and contracting rules and systems; training and other capacity-building programmes; greater access for local contractors to existing financing sources, including the Skill Development Levy; a review and update of the local content and subcontracting strategy and policy; and state-supported and financed research and development programmes.
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Fernandez, Luis R., Giovanni C. Migliaccio, and Richard J. Gebken. "Emergent Subcontracting Models and Owner Involvement in Selecting Subcontracting Strategies And Participants in the U.S. Construction Industry." In Creative Construction Conference 2019. Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3311/ccc2019-043.

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Arampath, A. M. N. N., R. Palliyaguru, and G. Karunasena. "Deficiencies in bespoke labour subcontract agreements: The case of large-scale contractors in the Sri Lankan construction industry." In 10th World Construction Symposium. Building Economics and Management Research Unit (BEMRU), University of Moratuwa, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.31705/wcs.2022.24.

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Labour subcontracting has become popular and has been extensively utilized in the building construction industry due to the potential for a reduction in initial cost for site mobilization. However, there are high risks involved in labour subcontracting due to inadequate and ambiguous subcontract agreements, which lead to disputes between parties. Thus, this paper aims to identify the deficiencies in large-scale contractors’ bespoke labour subcontract agreements in the Sri Lankan construction industry. Eight semi-structured interviews were carried out with main contractors (CS1 and CS2 as per the CIDA registrations) to identify the current practice of labour subcontracting and the terms/clauses included in their company-based labour subcontract agreement. The collected data was then subjected to a content analysis, and accordingly, deficiencies in the agreements were identified that fall into areas such as defects in the works, materials, tools and equipment, contract termination, discipline at the site, services provided by the main contractor, penalties, dispute management, health and safety, retention clause, quality of the works, rate of progress, laws and regulations, variations, insurance, and skill of the labour subcontractors.
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Marfella, Giorgio. "Seeds of Concrete Progress: Grain Elevators and Technology Transfer between America and Australia." In The 38th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand. online: SAHANZ, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.55939/a4000pi5hk.

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Modern concrete silos and grain elevators are a persistent source of interest and fascination for architects, industrial archaeologists, painters, photographers, and artists. The legacy of the Australian examples of the early 1900s is appreciated primarily by a popular culture that allocates value to these structures on aesthetic grounds. Several aspects of construction history associated with this early modern form of civil engineering have been less explored. In the 1920s and 1930s, concrete grain elevator stations blossomed along the railway networks of the Australian Wheat Belts, marking with their vertical presence the landscapes of many rural towns in New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, and Western Australia. The Australian reception of this industrial building type of American origin reflects the modern nation-building aspirations of State Governments of the early 1900s. The development of fast-tracked, self-climbing methods for constructing concrete silos, a technology also imported from America, illustrates the critical role of concrete in that effort of nation-building. The rural and urban proliferation of concrete silos in Australia also helped establish a confident local concrete industry that began thriving with automatic systems of movable formwork, mastering and ultimately transferring these construction methods to multi-storey buildings after WWII. Although there is an evident link between grain elevators and the historiographical propaganda of heroic modernism, that nexus should not induce to interpret old concrete silos as a vestige of modern aesthetics. As catalysts of technical and economic development in Australia, Australian wheat silos also bear important significance due to the international technology transfer and local repercussions of their fast-tracked concrete construction methods.
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Santhya, K. G., A. J. Francis Zavier, Snigdha Banerjee, and Shilpi Rampal. Ethical recruitment and employment in the construction industry in India: Perspectives and experiences of workers and micro-contractors. Population Council, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.31899/sbsr2022.1037.

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In India, the construction industry is the second-largest employer, with 51 million workers currently employed. Contracting and subcontracting has contributed to the rise of intermediary labor contractors, who provide migrants with information about labor markets and bring them to construction sites for work. Engagement in physically demanding low-skill jobs, low wages, harsh working conditions, and often deplorable living arrangements characterize the lives of many migrant construction workers. The Population Council, in partnership with the Global Fund to End Modern Slavery and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, undertook a qualitative study to explore the nature of the labor supply chain in the construction industry and the relationship between workers, micro-contractors, other contractors, and construction firms/companies. The study also explored vulnerabilities faced by migrant construction workers, perceptions of workers and micro-contractors about ethical recruitment and employment practices, and challenges faced by micro-contractors in following these ethical recruitment and employment practices. Twenty-five micro-contractors and 236 workers were interviewed from June to August 2022 in construction sites in Bengaluru and Delhi in India.
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