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Tertiary time: The precariat's dilemma [PDF]

, 2013
Progressive politics has always been about the struggle to reduce social inequities and inequalities. What takes priority depends on the type of society we live in.
Appadurai, Arendt, Bayart, Bourdieu, Castree, Ciborra, Corbridge, Darnton, Davies, Guy Standing, Hammer, Hardt, Harvey, Heydebrand, Jeffrey, Kaplan, Kundera, Leff, Linder, Mbembe, National Conference on Citizenship, Nice, Standing, Thompson   +23 more
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Hidden in the Labour Market: An Intersectional Latent Class Analysis of Discouraged Workers in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study employs an intersectionality‐informed latent class analysis (LCA) to examine the hidden diversity of discouraged workers in Australia. Drawing on nationally representative data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey, we identified six empirically distinct subgroups defined by intersecting demographic and ...
Sora Lee, Woojin Kang
wiley   +1 more source

Precarious Patriarchs in Toni Morrison’s Paradise: A Butlerian Study

Comparative Literature: East & West
The present article aims to explore the Butlerian notion of precarity in Morrison’s Paradise in an attempt to realize if and in what ways Butler’s conception of the term can be read into the novel.
Ladan Farah Bakhsh
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Copyright and cultural work: an exploration [PDF]

, 2012
This article first discusses the contemporary debate on cultural “creativity” and the economy. Second, it considers the current state of UK copyright law and how it relates to cultural work.
Banks M., Beck U., Bustamante E., Caves R.E., Charlotte Waelde, Fairclough N., Florida R., Garnham N., Garnham N., Gill R., Hesmondhalgh D., Hesmondhalgh D., Howkins J., Komter A., Mattelart A., McGuigan J., Menger P.-M., Morris N., Negus K., O'Connor J., Oakley K. M., Philip Schlesinger, Rambach A., Schlesinger P., Schlesinger P., Schlesinger P., Standing G., Thussu D. K., Towse R., Waelde C.   +29 more
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Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Housing asset‐based welfare has long been a key component of Australia's social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade‐off between homeownership and the size of nations' welfare states, wherein owner‐occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come to rely on housing wealth to meet many of their welfare needs ...
Gavin A. Wood, Christopher Phelps, Silvia Salazar, Rachel Ong ViforJ   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Issue 15: Economic Precarity among Syrian Refugee Families Living in Lebanon: Policy Recommendations to Restore Hope in the Context of Displacement [PDF]

, 2019
The conflict in Syria has been described as the largest humanitarian crisis to date. Ongoing for over eight years, the conflict has resulted in over five million refugees and 6.6 million people internally displaced within the borders of Syria.
Akesson, Bree, Badawi, Dena
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Lost in transition: redefining students and universities in the contemporary Kyrgyz Republic [PDF]

, 2013
Review of Alan DeYoung's Lost in Transition: Redefining Students and Universities in the Contemporary Kyrgyz ...
Amsler, Sarah
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Developing a critical caste analysis within information science and technology: A research review: An annual review of information science and technology paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
wiley   +1 more source

Impossible Choices: How Workers Manage Unpredictable Scheduling Practices [PDF]

, 2020
A total of 16 percent of hourly workers and 36 percent of workers paid on some other basis experience unstable work schedules due to irregular, on-call, rotating, or split shifts, which negatively impact workers’ ability to manage family responsibilities,
Alvarez, Camila H, Loustaunau, Lola, Petrucci, Larissa, Scott, Ellen   +3 more
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From disorientation to preparedness: Information practices as scaffolding in acute crises

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This qualitative study examines how adults in Israel enacted information practices during an acute national crisis. Using the information transitions framework, we investigate how concrete practices emerge and evolve across three stages: understanding, negotiating, and resolving. Semi‐structured Zoom interviews with 18 adults were analyzed via
Lilach Alon, Tali Malinoff, Inbar Levkovich   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source