Varieties Of Precarity
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Author | : Sophia Seung-yoon Lee |
Publisher | : Policy Press |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2023-10-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1447369270 |
Despite recent achievements in the South Korean economy and development within welfare institutions, new forms of precarious work continue to prevail. This book introduces the concept of ‘melting labour’, which refers to the blurring of boundaries between traditional forms of work and workplace and the dissolution of standard employment relationships. Presenting a theoretical framework at the intersection of ‘melting labour’ and institutional protection of workers, it addresses how and why the Korean welfare state has failed to protect precarious workers. Based on rich, in-depth interviews with over 80 precarious workers in Korea, from subcontracted manufacturing workers to platform workers, it provides a real depiction of how workers lose control over their lives and experience precariousness in labour markets.
Author | : Arne L. Kalleberg |
Publisher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages | : 477 |
Release | : 2017-12-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1787432882 |
This volume presents original theory and research on precarious work in various parts of the world, identifying its social, political and economic origins, its manifestations in the USA, Europe, Asia, and the Global South, and its consequences for personal and family life.
Author | : Steven P. Vallas |
Publisher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2016-08-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1786354055 |
This volume includes contributions which discuss: work and identity, including the experiences of actors and teachers; authority and control at work, including insights from the hospitality and publishing industries; and issues of gender and sexuality in the workplace, including insights on sexual harassment in the workplace.
Author | : Donatella della Porta |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2016-03-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 113750935X |
This volume addresses issues of precariousness in a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, looking at socio-economic transformations as well as the identity formation and political organizing of precarious people. The collection bridges empirical research with social theory to problematize and analyse the precariat.
Author | : Kalyani Chadha |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2021-12-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1000535045 |
This edited collection brings together leading scholars from around the world to discuss the consequences and implications of precarious labor conditions within the modern news industry. In 14 original chapters, contributors address global concerns in journalism across all platforms, based on the assumption that unstable employment conditions affect the extent to which journalists can continue to play their historically crucial role in sustaining democracies. Topics discussed include work conditions for freelancers and entrepreneurial journalists as well as the risks facing conflict reporters, precarity in media start-ups, unionization and other collective efforts, policies regulating journalistic labor around the world, and the impact of hedge fund money on newswork. Drawing on case studies and data from South America, Africa, the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and continental Europe, the book highlights how media outlets are forcing newsworkers to work harder for less money, and few countries are proactive in alleviating the precarity of journalists. Newswork and Precarity is a valuable addition to an important still-emerging area in journalism studies that will be of interest to both professionals and scholars of journalism, media studies, sociology, and labor history.
Author | : Chris Hann |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2018-03-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1785336797 |
Bringing together ethnographic case studies of industrial labor from different parts of the world, Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism explores the increasing casualization of workforces and the weakening power of organized labor. This division owes much to state policies and is reflected in local understandings of class. By exploring this relationship, these essays question the claim that neoliberal ideology has become the new ‘commonsense’ of our times and suggest various propositions about the conditions that create employment regimes based on flexible labor.
Author | : Joseph Choonara |
Publisher | : Policy Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2022-08-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1529220092 |
The words ‘precarity’ and ‘precariousness’ are widely used when discussing work, social conditions and experiences. However, there is no consensus on their meaning or how best to use them to explore social changes. This book shows how scholars have mapped out these notions, offering substantive analyses of issues such as the relationships between precariousness, debt, migration, health and workers’ mobilizations, and how these relationships have changed in the context of COVID-19. Bringing together an international group of authors from diverse fields, this book offers a distinctive critical perspective on the processes of precarization, focusing in particular on the European context. The Introduction, Chapters 3 and 8, and the Afterword are available Open Access via OAPEN under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Author | : Phoebe V. Moore |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2017-09-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1317201604 |
Humans are accustomed to being tool bearers, but what happens when machines become tool bearers, calculating human labour via the use of big data and people analytics by metrics? The Quantified Self in Precarity highlights how, whether it be in insecure ‘gig’ work or office work, such digitalisation is not an inevitable process – nor is it one that necessarily improves working conditions. Indeed, through unique research and empirical data, Moore demonstrates how workplace quantification leads to high turnover rates, workplace rationalisation and worker stress and anxiety, with these issues linked to increased rates of subjective and objective precarity. Scientific management asked us to be efficient. Now, we are asked to be agile. But what does this mean for the everyday lives we lead? With a fresh perspective on how technology and the use of technology for management and self-management changes the ‘quantified’, precarious workplace today, The Quantified Self in Precarity will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in fields such as Science and Technology, Organisation Management, Sociology and Politics.
Author | : Guy Standing |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2021-07-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0755637097 |
This book presents the new Precariat – the rapidly growing number of people facing lives of insecurity, on zero hours contracts, moving in and out of jobs that give little meaning to their lives. The delivery driver who brings your packages, the uber driver who gets you to work, the security guard at the mall, the carer looking after our elderly...these are The Precariat. Guy Standing investigates this new and growing group, finding a frustrated and angry new underclass who are often ignored by politicians and economists. The rise of zero hours contracts, encouraged by fat cat corporations as risk-free employment, and by silicon valley as a way of outsourcing costs and responsibility, has been exacerbated by the COVID pandemic. At the same time, in its experience of lockdown, the western world is realizing the true value of these nurses, carers and key workers. The answer? The return of income security and meaningful work - the principles 20th century capitalism was built on. By making the fears and desires of the Precariat central to economic thinking, Standing shows how concepts like Basic Income are not just desirable but inevitable, and plots the way to a better future.
Author | : Grenier, Amanda |
Publisher | : Policy Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2021-07-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1447340868 |
This edited collection develops an exciting new approach to understanding the changing cultural, economic and social circumstances facing different groups of older people.