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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"precarious work"”.
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Precarious Work and COVID-19: A Mixed Methods Analysis
… economic crisis that acutely highlights both the precariousness of temporary work and the essential nature of some precariously employed workers. No previous studies have longitudinally examined the trajectories of temporary and permanent workers’ weekly wages during the pandemic or leveraged …
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PRECARIOUS WORK EXPERIENCES OF IMMIGRANT TRUCKERS: LABOR PROCESS, NETWORKS, AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
… of labor migrants from Turkey in the context of precarious U.S. labor markets. Labor market transitions and work experiences are two aspects of incorporation. This dissertation analyzes the process by which first-generation Turkish male immigrants arrive in the United States, enter low-wage jobs, …
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Precarious Work and Communities: The Impact of Neoliberalism on Working Class Politics
Precarious work, which refers to work that is poorly paid, lacks benefits, and where workers have relatively little political power, has been on the rise in North America in the last few decades. If precarious workers are isolated and unengaged, they will not be able to represent their political …
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Trialling The Sensemaker Methodology To Conceptualise Precarious Work Among Employed Individuals In South Africa
Although precarious work is not a new phenomenon, birthed out of the development of paid employment in the 19th century (Kalleberg, 2009), a steady rise in precarious working arrangements has become cause for concern, due to its many adverse consequences. The aim of this dissertation is to evaluate …
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An exploration through the organisational metaphor: The precarious work and emotional labour experienced by call centre employees in India.
… at a lower cost to the employer, the employees working in the call centres are highly affected by their job’s characteristics and nature, which includes poor remuneration and a highly routinised and strict performance monitoring process. India is considered a highly desirable location for …
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O assédio moral e a precarização das relações de trabalho
… harassment as denounced in labor lawsuits by workers claiming compensation for moral damage, under the jurisdiction of the Regional Labor Court of the State of Bahia (Brazil) from 2001 to 2010, a period in which the number of lawsuits rose from one to 989. A database with quantitative and …
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The insecurity for teachers entering the further education and training sector.
… adult education to the needs of the economy. Precarious work has become a global pandemic and it is part of a neoliberal agenda in FET sector. Now! What has become apparent is a professional qualification to teach in FET is not enough to gain secure employment. Those who are deemed lucky …
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A global regulatory new deal for precarious and informal workers
… of the growing "precariat" or informal workforce. The growing incidence of precarious work is linked with increased inequality and heightened vulnerability. The thesis is concerned with the realm of regulation - hard laws, soft initiatives and other institutions that shape behaviour. …
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A global regulatory new deal for precarious and informal workers
… of the growing "precariat" or informal workforce. The growing incidence of precarious work is linked with increased inequality and heightened vulnerability. The thesis is concerned with the realm of regulation - hard laws, soft initiatives and other institutions that shape behaviour. …
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The Working Poor : Labour Strategies of Welfare Recipients in Helsinki, 1890–1970
This study discusses urban poverty and precarious work from early industrialization until the era of the welfare state in Finland. The dissertation analyses the labour strategies of individuals in the receipt of poor relief or social assistance allowances in Helsinki between the early 1890s and the …
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La flessibilizzazione del mercato del lavoro italiano, conseguenze economiche ed occupazionali per le giovani coorti
… on the labor market as regards the risks of a precarious work career. In explaining the logics underlying the different kinds of labor market deregulation, the literature stresses the alternative between labor market adjustment based on wage inequality and job insecurity. Flexible and unequal …
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Gifts of Rights?: A Legal History of Employment Pension Plans in Canada
… needs, needs that frequently collide with worker needs and expectations for good pensions. Even in the heyday of the ‘Fordist’ work structures that fostered employment pension plans, the system delivered benefits very unequally, privileging the interest of elite workers who fit the ‘male …
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Staying in the Workforce with Fibromyalgia
… can be difficult in the increasingly precarious work world, where employees are expected to be healthy and able to consistently meet their job demands. Fibromyalgia also lacks medical legitimacy, which brings a risk of damaged workplace relationships and potential workplace …
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The Geography of Farmworker Health: A Mixed-Method Exploratory Analysis of Chronic Disease
… some as the ‘invisible’ people because of their precarious work and low social status, migratory and seasonal farmworkers (MSFW) are a critical and underappreciated component to the agriculture industry in the United States. Despite advances in knowledge of about the health needs of this …
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An examination of employment precarity and insecurity in the UK
… topics of discussion within the sociology of work and in society at large. This thesis demonstrates the limits to the growth of precarity in the UK labour force. It contests the view that employment is becoming relentlessly more precarious in the neoliberal period. Furthermore, it challenges …
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Psicologia e direito das famílias: análise da mediação familiar judicial
… the perspective of Institutional Analysis, the working conditions of family mediators. Its specific objectives are: a) know the “orders” and “demands” made to mediators in their practices in Family Law; b) analyze forces (institutions) that go through the production of this demand, as well as …
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The Political Economy of the Overdose Crisis in Western Canada: An Exploratory Case Study
… and brought changes to the organization of work leading to increased precarity. Such broader economic influences have been identified as among important determinants of substance use and related harms in other contexts. Scant research evidence exists investigating structural determinants in …
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Liminal Lives: How Ireland’s Labour Migration Regime Entraps Migrant Households in Hyper-precarity
… net migration. However, we know little about the work and life experiences of those migrants who made Ireland home. This research aims to fill key knowledge gaps relating to how migrants have experienced labour market progression in Ireland, the traps and structural barriers they have encountered …
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"What I do, it's not little, it's really something": a political economy of migrant and minority ethnic care workers' experience in private older-age care in London, Paris and Madrid
… the reliance on migrant and minority ethnic workers for older-age care is related to patterns of inequality at the intersection of gender, employment, migration and care regimes. Building upon the possibilities opened up by the cross-national dimension of this research, the thesis presents a …
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