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Anthropologies of Unemployment: New Perspectives on Work and Its Absence [PDF]

, 2016
[Excerpt] Anthropologies of Unemployment offers accessible, theoretically innovative, and ethnographically rich examinations of unemployment in rural and urban regions across North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Kwon, Jong Bum, (Ed.), Lane (Ed.), Carrie M.   +1 more
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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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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
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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
wiley   +1 more source

Unmet Healthcare Needs in Unstable Jobs: Perspectives from Low-Skilled Migrant Workers in South Korea

Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing
This 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
doaj   +1 more source

Exclusionary employment in Britain’s broken labour market [PDF]

, 2016
There is growing evidence of the problematic nature of the UK’s ‘flexible labour market’ with rising levels of in-work poverty and insecurity. Yet successive Governments have stressed that paid work is the route to inclusion, focussing attention on the ...
Aldridge H, Bailey N, Bailey N, Barnes M, Berghman J, Blond P, Burchardt T, Byrne D, Coote A, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Eurofound, Eurofound, Gallie D, Gordon D, House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee, Kenway P, Levitas R, Levitas R, Millward N, Office for National Statistics (ONS), Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Pantazis C, Platt L, Scottish Government, Skinner C, Standing G, Thompson S, Tomlinson M   +32 more
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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

Precarity, precariousness and software workers: wages, unions and subjectivity in the Argentinian software and information services sector

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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'#DifferenceMakesUs': Selling Shakespeare Online (and the Commerce Platform Etsy) [PDF]

, 2018
open access articleThe mission statement of the online creative commerce platform Etsy declares its commitment to “using the power of business to strengthen communities and empower people”. Among the many handmade and vintage items sold on Etsy are 3,811
Blackwell, Anna
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