Precarious work and heath: Do occupation- and state-specific unemployment rates matter for women and for men? [PDF]
SSM: Population Health, 2021 Precarious work has the potential to undermine workers’ health and well-being, and linkages between precarious work and health may depend on contextual measures of unemployment.
Rachel Donnelly
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Perceived precarious life: a SEM model for re-dimensioning of precarious work and its impact on mental health [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 IntroductionPrecarious work is one of the most studied concepts related to work, and its effects have been analyzed in relation to variables such as mental health and wellbeing.
José Antonio Llosa +3 more
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Parents’ precarious work schedules and children’s asthma management [PDF]
BMC Public HealthBackground Many working parents in the United States are employed in jobs that expose them to challenging working conditions, including low wages, limited benefits, and unstable and unpredictable work schedules.
Kelly Quinn +2 more
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Precarious work on the rise [PDF]
BMC Public HealthPrecarious employment (PE) is non-standard employment with uncertain and unstable contract duration, low wages, and limited labour protections and rights.
Melissa Perri +10 more
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The Double Bind of Precarious Work: Creating Need and Undermining Support [PDF]
Sociological ScienceFor most adults in the United States, participation in the labor force is a normative expectation and a pre-requisite for social acceptance and inclusion.
Tyler Woods +2 more
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Angry and “productive”: engagement in gamified precarious work [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyWe examine the affective engagement of workers in app-mediated food delivery who continue working while explicitly describing the work as harming them financially, emotionally, and bodily, while using the language of betrayed intimacy.
Irina Dzero
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Effects of precarious work on symptomatology of anxiety and depression in Chilean workers, a cross sectional study [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2021 Background Precarious work is a broad definition for non-standard employment, often including unstable and insecure positions where workers permanently experience uncertainty; these types of jobs are growing steadily around the planet.
Gonzalo Lopez +3 more
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The working disadvantaged: the role of age, job tenure and disability in precarious work [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2020 Background Precarious work is an increasingly common characteristic of industrialized labor markets that can widen health inequities, especially among disadvantaged workforce segments. Study objectives are to compare precarious employment in workers with
Arif Jetha +3 more
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Restoring the Holistic Practice of Academic Work:
Workplace, 2021 Without diminishing the importance and significance of mobilization efforts in support of academic workers who hold part-time contracts, we want in this paper to make a strategic intervention into this struggle by shifting the focus from academic workers
Janice Newson, Claire Polster
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Supporting workers with mental health problems at work: challenges and avenues
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2022 Mental health problems in the workforce present a major public and occupational health challenge and come with significant costs for the individuals, families, employers and society at large.
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