Precarious work is a term that critics use to describe non-standard or temporary employment that may be poorly paid, insecure, unprotected, and unable...
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permanent work. Therefore, temporary workers no longer represented a substitute for permanent workers on leave but became semi-permanent, precarious positions...
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Precariat (category Precarious work)
material or psychological welfare. The term is a portmanteau merging precarious with proletariat. Unlike the proletariat class of industrial workers in...
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Employment counsellor Ethnic penalty Job-seeking expense tax deductions Precarious work Search theory Self-employment Simultaneous recruiting of new graduates...
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Freeter (category Precarious work)
Arubaito is a Japanese loanword from Arbeiter, and perhaps from Arbeit ("work"). As German (along with English) was used in Japanese universities before...
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Workforce casualisation (redirect from Casualisation of work)
portal Casual work Change management Contingent workforce Contingent work Gig economy Permatemp Precariat Precarious work Temporary work Zero-hour contract...
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WIEGO (category Precarious work)
opportunities and rights and be able to determine the conditions of their work and lives. WIEGO works to improve the status of the working poor, especially...
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Shift-based hiring (category Precarious work)
worker to work recurrent shifts that can become part-time or full-time work, although the latter can be a result of employing a worker to work shifts that...
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harder for young people to secure stable, full-time jobs. The rise of precarious work (freeter) and individuals Not in Education, Employment, or Training...
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Ghost Work Human capital Misclassification of employees as independent contractors National Safety Council Permatemp Precariat Precarious work Precarity...
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labour Domestic worker Gig worker Wage slavery Wage theft Sweatshop Precarious work Workfare By location Other Theories of poverty Well-being Welfare Welfare...
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Zero-hour contract (category Precarious work)
call shift On-call room Precarious work Reserve army of labour Shift-based hiring UK labour law Underemployment Wage slavery Work-life balance "Zero Hours...
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stress Human trafficking Income deficit Poverty threshold Precariat Precarious work Secondary poverty Social determinants of health in poverty Survival...
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Ghost work is work performed by a human, but believed by a customer to be performed by an automated process. The term was coined by anthropologist Mary...
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Reserve army of labour (category Precarious work)
part-time workers with precarious status who share aspects of the proletariat and the reserve army of labor. Precarious workers do work part-time or full-time...
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Freelancer (redirect from Legal aspects of freelance work)
and the work can be highly precarious. In order to ensure payment, many freelancers use online payment platforms to protect themselves or work with local...
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stress Human trafficking Income deficit Poverty threshold Precariat Precarious work Secondary poverty Social determinants of health in poverty Survival...
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economies have also introduced novel challenges, such as the rise of precarious work arrangements in the gig economy, reduced labor protections, and concerns...
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Precarity (category Precarious work)
Precarity (also precariousness) is a precarious existence, lacking in predictability, job security, material or psychological welfare. The social class...
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Twixter (category Precarious work)
single or "freeter" segment of the youth population who live at home and work at undemanding jobs. The Hodo-Hodo zoku are employees who avoid promotion...
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Transaction Man (category Precarious work)
the 20th century. Lemann (b. 1954-), first worked as a journalist in his natal city, New Orleans. He worked for the Washington Monthly, The Washington...
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order policies may pose a problem, though. Employees are at risk of precarious work when employed by factories that utilize just-in-time and flexible production...
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Seasonworker (category Precarious work)
abroad" holidays by the police and other authorities. Seasonworkers who work for family camping companies such as Canvas Holidays, Eurocamp, Camping Life...
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during the 70s was the idea "precariousness is good". Job precariousness is a form of autonomy from steady regular work, lasting an entire life. In the...
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development approach, developed by Mahbub ul-Haq, anchored in Amartya Sen's work on human capabilities, and often framed in terms of whether people are able...
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United States v. Silk (category Precarious work)
The businesses argued that the coal loaders or the truck drivers providing work were independent contractors, and so not covered by social security taxes...
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poverty and social inequality." Further discourse suggests that Oscar Lewis's work was misunderstood. De Antuñano, E. (2019) states the theory of the culture...
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Day labor (category Precarious work)
in Commonwealth spelling) is work done where the worker is hired and paid one day at a time, with no promise that more work will be available in the future...
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late 20th century, precarious work is on the rise and people receive fewer job benefits, people may often choose to focus on work or school more instead...
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National Day Laborer Organizing Network (category Precarious work)
largest immigration rights demonstration, the AFL-CIO signed an agreement to work together with NDLON to improve the working conditions of immigrant day laborers...
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