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Household Role in Coping with Precarious Work. Evidence from Qualitative Research in Urban Romania and Switzerland

Social Change Review, 2016
This paper presents the results of a qualitative comparative study that looked at the meaning of ‘precarious work’ in households situated in the position of ‘precarious prosperity’ in Switzerland and Romania in 2013.
Preoteasa Ana Maria D., Sieber Rebekka, Budowski Monica, Suter Christian   +3 more
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Nonstandard Employment in the Nordics – Toward Precarious Work?

Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2019
This article examines nonstandard employment and precariousness in four Nordic countries (Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway). Drawing on data from the Labour Force Survey from 1995 to 2015, the article investigates and compares recent developments of ...
Stine Rasmussen, Jouko Nätti, Trine Pernille Larsen, Anna Ilsøe, Anne Helene Garde   +4 more
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Collaborating with transnational families: Learning from the experiences of family caretakers, educators, psychologists, and spiritual leaders in Honduras

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This manuscript centers on the experiences of caretakers of minors in Honduran transnational families (TNFs) in which one or both parents emigrated, and of the schoolteachers, professional psychologists, and spiritual leaders working with these families.
Marco Gemignani, Yolanda Hernández‐Albújar, Nerea Larrinaga‐Bidegain   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Homelessness Service Usage Patterns of 30,000 Homeless and At‐Risk Households: The Melbourne Access Point Study

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the last three decades, overseas researchers have utilised administrative data to identify distinct patterns in shelter use. In Australia, the use of administrative data to understand service utilisation patterns among people ‘at risk’ of homelessness and experiencing homelessness is limited.
Godwin Kavaarpuo, Kathryn Daley, Guy Johnson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Micro-Entrepreneurship: Tendency towards Precarious Work? Empirical Findings for Austria [PDF]

Athens Journal of Business & Economics, 2015
The complex interaction of technological development, globalisation and socio-demographic change has accelerated a structural change in the economy, resulting in a changing working environment and new forms of employment. In the field of self-employment,
Dieter Bogenhold, Andrea Klinglmair
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Don't Worry About Her; Intersectionality, and the Role of Systems and Structures in the Embodied Experiences of Young Women's Use of Violence

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Systems and structures designed to protect and support young people, specifically (in this paper) young women, are ironically the same systems that maintain gender disparity. Consequently, this has influenced the embodied identities of young women who experience and use violence. Such systemic and structural intersectionality has impacted upon
Louise Rak, Tamara Blakemore, Elsie Randall, Meaghan Katrak Harris   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The making of precarity: an ethnography on precarious workers in Auckland, New Zealand

Kōtuitui
The following article focuses on the everyday struggles of precarious workers in Auckland, New Zealand. As an excerpt from an ethnography on lived precarity in Auckland City, it reveals structural constraints that precarious workers face daily.
Marko Galič
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‘The Other Parent’: A Critical Policy Analysis of Fatherhood Discourses in the Australian Government's Paid Parental Leave Scheme

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Australian paid parental leave (PPL) government scheme aims to support working parents through financial assistance and the promotion of gender equality in caregiving responsibilities. However, the scheme's implementation has been critiqued for its gendered design, which marginalises fathers and reinforces traditional gender roles.
Lily Lewington, Bernadette Sebar, Jessica Lee   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The negative effects on mental health of being in a non-desired occupation in an increasingly precarious labour market

SSM: Population Health, 2017
Precarious employment has been associated with poor mental health. Moreover, increasing labour market precariousness may cause individuals to feel ‘locked-in’, in non-desired workplaces or occupations, out of fear of not finding a new employment.
Catarina Canivet, Gunnar Aronsson, Claudia Bernhard-Oettel, Constanze Leineweber, Mahnaz Moghaddassi, Johanna Stengård, Hugo Westerlund, Per-Olof Östergren   +7 more
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Factors Associated with the Prevalence of Precarious Positions in Canadian Libraries: Statistical Analysis of a National Job Board

Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2020
Objective - To collect and share information about the prevalence of precarious work in libraries and the factors associated with it. Methods - The authors collected and coded job postings from a nationwide job board in Canada for two years ...
Ean Henninger, Adena Brons, Chloe Riley, Crystal Yin   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source