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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 +3 more
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Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and FinancingThis study explores the relationship between precarious employment and unmet healthcare needs among low-skilled migrant workers with E-9 visas in South Korea, addressing health disparities in a rapidly aging society.
Min-Chul Hwang PhD
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Honduras: Labor Precarity in the Salaried Class During the Model of Neoliberal Accumulation
Íconos, 2019 This article analyzes how labor relations have become precarious for the salaried class since the neoliberal model of accumulation in Honduras has been in place.
Mario Enrique Pineda Talavera
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Australia's Migration Strategy: An Effective Response to Migrant Worker Exploitation?
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A series of publicised migrant worker injuries and deaths has drawn attention to the issue of migrant worker exploitation (MWE) in Australia. In response, the Australian Government has included ‘Tackling Worker Exploitation’ as a key area of its Migration Strategy which it introduced in 2023. However, it is unclear how effective the Strategy’s
Evelyn Dowling, Alexandra Ridgway
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Precarious Patriarchs in Toni Morrison’s Paradise: A Butlerian Study
Comparative Literature: East & WestThe 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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Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, 2017 This article focuses on a paradigmatic type of knowledge work: informatics. Specifically, it studies the processes of precarity and precariousness taking place in the Argentinian software and information services (SIS) sector.
Andrés Rabosto, Mariano Zukerfeld
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L’autonomie dans l’invisibilité. Les accompagnantes des élèves en situation de handicap
La Nouvelle Revue du Travail, 2022 The period since the 1980s has witnessed numerous educational professionals’ replacement by less qualified and lower paid technical workers hired to help manage student heterogeneity – an arrangement enabling the implementation of low-cost public policy.
Christophe Chevalier +2 more
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Quantifying the Sites of Government, Commercial, and Personal Systems‐Perpetrated Financial Abuse
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explores the institutional systems through which post‐separation financial abuse is perpetrated. While existing measures seek to quantify the harms experienced by women post‐separation, this study draws on financial, welfare and legal service casefiles to identify where such harms occur. Drawing on 76 de‐identified Victorian service
Kay Cook +3 more
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‘Shelter is a Dignity’: Rental Racism, Stress and Housing (In)justice
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australia's private rental sector is in crisis, and culturally and racially minoritised renters face compounded harms through both covert and everyday direct forms of rental racism. Drawing on five community‐based focus groups in Melbourne (n = 37), the paper explores how racism manifests across the rental pathway and how it structures the ...
Erika Martino +3 more
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Precariousness in employment mediated by digital platforms. Evidence from Europe
Revista de Economía MundialIs precarity inherent to employment when it is mediated by a digital platform, or does employment precarity have other causes? Using the first wave of the European survey on collaborative economy and employment (COLLEEM, hereinafter), we identify ...
María Isabel de Andres +2 more
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