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Connection men, pushers and migrant trajectories: examining the dynamics of the migration industry in Ghana and along routes into Europe and the Gulf States [PDF]
, 2019 This paper examines the inner workings and operational logic of the array of individuals, agencies, state and non-state actors, institutions and social networks that collectively make up the migration industry in Ghana.
Awumbila, Mariama +4 more
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Human Resource Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Compensation plays a pivotal role in shaping employee behavior, motivation, and well‐being. Although extant research has explored various dimensions of compensation, questions about how important pay is to employees and concerns (on the part of employers and/or employees) about the unintended negative (in addition to intended positive ...
Barry Gerhart, Ji Hyun Kim, Shan He
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The changing effects of social protection on poverty [PDF]
, 2010 This paper fits within a broader research programme concerned with the processes that link labour market precarity and social exclusion. Labour market insecurity manifests itself most directly in the form of unemployment, and other elements in the ...
Hauser, Richard +2 more
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Service Work as Lived Experience: A Problematizing Review
Human Resource Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Between employee burnout and growing recruitment challenges, a systemic crisis confronts the service industry. One reason lies in the scope of received human resource management (HRM) approaches, which often emphasize organizational performance metrics at the expense of the emotional, social, and material experiences of doing frontline service
Kushagra Bhatnagar +2 more
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Bearing the Unbearable: Double Controls and Disguised Precarity on China-Based Platforms
Social Media + SocietyThis article examines controls over platform laborers by platforms and states as well as the precarity of platform laborers. Adopting a multi-level approach, we put the spotlight on how states, platforms and laborers interact with each other when states ...
Le Lin, Grace Chun Guo
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“The Brains Are Frozen”: Precarious Subjectivities in the Humanitarian Aid Sector in Jordan
Social InclusionUnder the influence of neoliberal policies and marketisation dynamics, the humanitarian sector’s labour conditions become increasingly insecure. Based on one year of fieldwork in Amman, Jordan, and interviews with 39 aid professionals, this article ...
Brigit Ronde
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Theory & Event, 2021 This paper explores the intricate relationship between precarity and coloniality. It argues that discussions and experiences of precarity—defined as the increased vulnerability to exploitative working and living conditions—are historically steeped in colonial and racial violence. It stages a critique of the recently-emerged scholarship on the future of
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Social Quality and Precarity: Approaching New Patterns of Societal (Dis)Integration [PDF]
The main issue of this article is to discuss the question of ‘precarity’ in the context of the theory of social quality (see Beck et al, 2001), with which to pave the way for developing further the theoretical foundation of precarity.
Herrmann, Peter +1 more
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Political participation of unemployed youth: the moderator effect of associational membership [PDF]
, 2015 This article discusses how associational membership can compensate for that lack of opportunities and motivation necessary for political participation that unemployment usually provokes.
Baglioni, Simone +2 more
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Strategic Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This systematic literature review makes three key contributions to resilience research in SMEs. First, it advances theory by synthesizing the Resource‐Based View and Dynamic Capabilities perspective to develop a novel two‐dimensional framework of SME resilience (Adaptability × Resource availability), identifying four distinct resilience ...
Egena Ode +3 more
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