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Precarious Work

2021
Chapter 6 discusses labor politics in Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia. The emphasis is on responses by labor, civil society, and governments to precarious work, inequality, and poverty. In Japan the political dominance of the Liberal Democratic Party and a union focus on regular workers has made it difficult for unions to press for labor laws and ...
Arne L. Kalleberg   +2 more
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Precarious work [PDF]

open access: possible, 2015
Tekst predstavlja dio pojmovnika časopisa Rad.
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Dualisms of Precarious Work

2021
Chapter 4 documents the growth in nonregular work arrangements in Japan and South Korea and the salience of the informal economy in Indonesia. These trends are discussed in terms of dualisms: nonregular versus regular work especially in Japan and South Korea, and informal versus formal work in Indonesia.
Arne L. Kalleberg   +2 more
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Ethnography as precarious work

The Sociological Quarterly, 2013
Reflecting on a carnal ethnography of the fashion modeling market, I consider the analytic gains from observant participation and experimentation with the sociologist's body as a participant in a c...
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Precarious Work

Contexts, 2013
Sociologist Gretchen Purser reviews the books The Temp Economy, Intern Nation and The Precariat. These books explore recent transformations in the labor market and the increasingly precarious nature of work.
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Precarious Work in Japan

American Behavioral Scientist, 2012
This article examines the causes and consequences of the dramatic growth of precarious employment in Japan since the 1990s. In response to heightened competition associated with globalization, Japanese firms adopted cost-cutting policies to remain competitive, especially in terms of reducing wage outlays.
Machiko Osawa   +2 more
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The future of clerical work is precarious

Interactions, 2018
Community + Culture features practitioner perspectives on designing technologies for and with communities. We highlight compelling projects and provocative points of view that speak to both community technology practice and the interaction design field as a whole. --- Christopher A. Le Dantec, Editor
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The Precarious Work of Care

Labor, 2020
This article examines a series of Service Employees’ International Union (SEIU) campaigns for protection from needlestick injuries, led by women health-care workers, from the dawn of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s through battles over the 1992 OSHA standard on blood-borne pathogens and the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act of 2000.
Elizabeth Faue, Josiah Rector
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