‘Airport People’ in Transformation: Vertical Disintegration and the Reconfiguration of Occupational Belonging in Terminal Work at Helsinki-Vantaa International Airport

This article examines the effects of vertical disintegration production on airport terminal workers through theoretical lens occupational belonging, highlighting themes sensory and embodied experience, changing dynamics employment relationships, new patterns inclusion exclusion. The contributes to efforts produce nuanced empirical accounts post-Fordist work, showing how restructuring had effect disrupting relations activity rhythms, while nevertheless preserving ‘the airport’ as a symbolic relational setting in relation which belonging could be constructed. work binding people jobs, previously undertaken by integrated organisations, was taken up themselves their personal relationships will belong. highlights capacity undertake this central dynamic exclusion, context experienced being shaped age ability make use navigating precarious relations. Based analysis, argues for valuable perspective studies materiality, identification relationality work.