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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Precarious employment"”.
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College Contract Faculty in Ontario: Professional Identities and Precarious Employment
… do they perceive the relationship between their employment status and their work as educators? In recent scholarship, it has been argued that part-time faculty occupy liminal positions as simultaneous professionals and precarious labourers in higher education. None of the literature attends to …
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Precarious Employment and Fathering Among Men in Higher Education Institutions
… in literature involving female academic staff on precarious employment contracts and how they balance their work and family lives. However, research involving male academic staff on insecure contracts with children is limited, particularly within the South African context. My thesis addressed this …
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The embedding of precarious employment in Ireland: stories of workers from the South-East
Real-life narratives of the precarious employment of 13 low-paid and insecure workers located in the South-East region of Ireland form the basis of this thesis. This study examines the relationship between EU and Irish policies of social inclusion and their application to workers in precarious …
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Medicating the Crisis: Investigating the Links Between Precarious Employment, Mental Health Issues, and the Reliance on Antidepressants as Treatment
… that discusses the relationship between precarious employment conditions, declines in mental health, and the way mental health issues are treated with pharmaceutical technologies – namely antidepressant medication. In this dissertation, I aim to contribute to this discussion by a) …
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How the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced women’s employment and their health: an inquiry into their lived experiences
The COVID-19 pandemic accentuated employment vulnerabilities among women working in the Canadian services sector. Research shows how poverty, precarious employment, and crisis are gendered and racialized. Few studies, however, critically explore women’s employment in Canada and how neoliberalism …
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Young People and Migration in Ghana
… the decision-making process? What are the precarious employment and living situation associated with young migrants? In what ways do social networks support young migrants in the migration process? What role does migration for work play in the lives of young migrants and their left behind …
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Assessing the disparities in COVID-19 outcomes among different socioeconomic and demographic groups and implications for public health policy.
… with healthcare access, housing conditions, employment instability, and pre-current fitness conditions on COVID-19 consequences. The observe analyzed more than a few research that supplied data at the experiences of decrease-earnings organizations and precise demographic segments, which …
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Casting Aside Bent Bodies: Embodied Violence as an Everyday Experience for Filipino Migrant Seafarers
… I posit that the health inequities that follow precarious employment for seafarers are produced through the discourse of economic and social policies that are inscribed onto the body and conclude with new paths for this research within nonacademic and academic settings.
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Clerical Workers: Acquiring the Skills to Meet Tacit Process Expectations Within a Context of Work Undervaluation and Job Fragility
… today have become increasingly vulnerable to unemployment, precarious employment and underemployment. In this research, an Ontario-wide survey with approximately 1200 respondents (including 120 clerical workers) and in-depth interviews with 23 Toronto clerical workers were combined to explore …
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As condições de trabalho e a qualidade de vida profissional: um estudo exploratório com docentes
… suffering that affects teachers because of their precarious employment situations and consequently devaluations. Thus, the present study, The working conditions and the quality of working life: an exploratory study with teachers, aimed to draw down on the teachers' working conditions and quality …
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The Ethics of Entrepreneurship and Financial Literacy Education: A Security and Freedom for the Other
… of the dominant response in education to precarious employment and increasing financial insecurity. Motivated by a conviction that governments, researchers, teachers, parents and businesses must empower individuals, particularly the most disadvantaged, to manage and even thrive in an …
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Self-Reliant Subjects of Finance: Investing and Borrowing in Working-class Households in Contemporary Capitalism
… inequalities such as stagnating wages or precarious employment. The thesis therefore approaches the issue of contemporary financialised inequality from a critical realist perspective, in order to examine the causal mechanisms underlying the shift to financial subjectivity, and the …
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Exploring employee well-being among precarious (fixed-term) call center workers
… work that deviate from the traditional standard employment relationship. Temporary employment or fixed-term employment has become a norm, especially in the call centre industry. In addition to the call centre environment being a major contributor to stress and job insecurity, the status of …
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‘A little bit patronising if I’m being honest’: working-class mothering and expert discourses.
… and a labour market which creates low-paid, precarious employment; these initiatives would dramatically transform family life. This research provides the first academic analysis of the BBC’s Tiny Happy People. It highlights the gulf between those in positions of power (whether within …
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Work, poverty and welfare reform: welfare-to-work programmes for lone parents in depressed local labour markets
… work, and face multiple barriers to moving into employment. I then examine the different approaches to employing lone parents in Buffalo and Sheffield, and assess whether the programmes move lone parents off benefit and into employment, and whether they subsequently return to welfare. The last of …
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'Not just a housewife': Gender, Class, and Labour in the New Economy of Urban India
… this thesis, I explore the emergence of women’s employment as a practice of class ‘distinction’. I focus specifically on the lower middle classes, where gender and class relations are particularly subject to change, conflict, and contestations. In a ‘liminal’ position as neither working class nor …
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Occupational health and safety of young, part-time workers in the United Kingdom and Canada
As the employment landscape continues to shift to a post industrial society, new risks have emerged for less skilled young workers in flexible labour markets (Mills 2004; Taylor-Gooby 2004). This is highlighted in the fast food industry, renowned for its employment conditions such as low pay, …
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Social Movements and Resistance to Neoliberalism in America, 1979-2000
… inequality, environmental degradation, and precarious employment. In telling this story, this dissertation brings together several strands of historical scholarship – political history, environmental history, and labour history – that have hitherto been treated as discrete objects of study. …
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Invisible labour: the role of institutionalised xenophobia in shaping the experiences of migrant domestic workers in South Africa
… African countries, face systemic exclusion, precarious employment conditions, and, in some cases, outright violence. This dissertation investigates how institutionalised xenophobia has contributed to the exploitation and marginalisation of migrant domestic workers in both apartheid and …
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Organised labour and migration in the global age: a comparative analysis of trade union responses to migrant labour in Austria, Germany, Ireland and the UK
… national labour markets and the spread of rather precarious employment relationships, including irregular migrants, unions increasingly struggle to secure ‘equal pay for equal work’. Attempts to organise migrants are made further difficult not only by language barriers, but also by the fact that …
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