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Industrial Relations Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Official discourse suggests that 12% of Britain's workforce engages in precarious work where non‐compliance is concentrated. Research reported here suggests this provides a partial picture and that, in specific sectors, non‐compliant employers, organized crime groups and criminalized employment are ceded by the state, where many ...
Ian Clark +3 more
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International Social Science Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the British government's response to the August 2011 English riots through the lens of state crime, drawing on Richards and Avery's ‘Thug State’ concept. It addresses the relative neglect of the state's response itself as a potential form of criminality and social harm.
Monia O'Brien Castro
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Russian Journal of Economics and Law, 2020 Objective: to assess the students and graduates’ perception of the state policy aimed at supporting young professionals in the labor market.Methods: qualitative methods were used to analyze labor market institutions, in-depth interviews were conducted ...
E. V. Maslyukova, A. I. Maskaev
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Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how media usage trends of Roma people intersect with urban peripherality and structural inequalities. The study designed as a two‐stage comparative ethnographic field study and conducted in 2016 and 2025 on a Roma community living in Izmir Province of Türkiye, focuses on the ongoing deprivations of the Roma population in ...
Mehmet Işık, Şakir Eşitti
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Social Policy &Administration, Volume 60, Issue 6, Page 1124-1134, November 2026.ABSTRACT Using qualitative data with older (50+) EU‐migrants and NGO representatives, this study investigates the drivers of old‐age poverty and retirement insecurity for low‐income EU‐migrants. Our findings indicate that the nature of work that many are/were engaged in and education, along with timing and age of arrival to the UK, influenced poverty ...
David Smith +5 more
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Global Labour Journal, 2016 This article engages with Guy Standing’s arguments about the affective politics of the precariat by reflecting on the conditions that facilitate, as well as constrain, the solidaristic transformation of the precariat.
Jennifer Jihye Chun
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Societies, 2021 In recent years, courier and home delivery services have experienced extensive growth around the world. These platform companies, that operate through applications on smartphones, have experienced the benefits of the technological leap that has been ...
Gabriel López-Martínez +2 more
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Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 5, Page 1806-1818, September 2026.ABSTRACT The infrastructure of precarious work is racialized and gendered, affecting disenfranchised Black women who carry the burden of low paid caregiving within the healthcare system. In South Africa, Community Health Workers, predominantly Black women from marginalized communities, have been vital in providing primary healthcare services at home ...
Sivuyisiwe Wonci
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FilmvisioThe concept of the precariat, put forward by Guy Standing (2014), refers to a new class formation struggling within insecure and unstable forms of employment. Situated between the working class and the middle class, the precariat is defined by conditions
Burhan Ağbaba, Gönül Cengiz
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British Educational Research Journal, Volume 52, Issue 4, Page 2884-2902, August 2026.Abstract Drawing upon interview research across two academic departments as part of the early stages of a ‘decolonise the curriculum’ initiative at a Southern UK university, this study highlights a growing gulf between policy and practice in efforts to address systemic racial inequalities in UK universities. A reliance upon precarious labour, a culture
Triona Fitton +4 more
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