Demand for flexibility or generation of insecurity? The individualization of risk, irregular work shifts and Canadian youth

Mills, Melinda

doi:10.1080/1367626042000238677

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“…Hierin wordt gewezen op de aanhoudende rol van sociale klasse bij het structureren van mogelijkheden en beperkingen voor de levensloop van individuen (o.a. Erikson en Goldthorpe, 1993;Breen, 1997;Mills, 2004). Het ziet ernaar uit dat levensvooruitzichten stevig ingebed blijven in de sociale structuur en kunnen worden voorspeld aan de hand van de plaatsbepaling van een individu in deze context.…”

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2007

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“…To older people or people more used to traditional learner-to-earner models, our interviewees' orientation to lifelong learning and change may appear to be characterised by a lack of commitment because it suggests a lot of worker mobility or effort in inconsistent directions. Five years after leaving school, our interviewees continue to change work and education configurations and consider different work and lifestyles, though as Mills (2004) argues, this could be about coping with insecure employment conditions as much as a need for flexibility.…”

Section: Reconceptualising Learner-workers As Learning-workersmentioning

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Learning Workers: Young New Zealanders and Early Career Development

Vaughan

2010

Vocations and Learning

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Young adults' early career development is an increasingly important field of inquiry. With the complexity of modern transitions from school and the lifelong learning demands of emerging knowledge societies, governments are concerned to improve learning pathways into, and through, tertiary education and work. Young adults are exploring new learning and work possibilities and understanding these create a challenge for governments trying to validate their experiences and enhance their employability. This paper draws on integrated qualitative and statistical cluster analyses of young New Zealanders' narratives about navigating learning and work. It draws out theoretical and policy implications, suggesting that work life learning in and outside the workplace is a key feature of young adults' lives, though it is experienced differently by different groups. These experiences need to be taken into account in government policy as the value of providing a range of different learning settings, and of learning as necessarily lifelong, features increasingly in those policies-albeit in a fairly narrowly defined way. Youth Transitions to Work in New ZealandGovernments around the world are concerned with young people's transition from schooling, particularly their successful integration into the workforce and early career development. Their concerns are framed by the "increasingly indeterminate" start and end points of transition (Raffe 2001), the multi-directional as well as linear movement involved, and the different markers for, and forms of, adulthood (Arnett 2006). These transitions are also framed by a growing acknowledgement that people Vocations and Learning (2010) 3:157-178

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“…The disenfranchisement of these groups is demonstrated by trend and demographic reports of contingent work, which note for example that Mexican nationals constitute the majority of the migrant and seasonal farm workers in the United States (Mehta et al, 2000;Quandt et al, 2002;Walter et al, 2002); that most subcontract taxi drivers in Australia are migrants (Mayhew, 1999); and that in Canada support workers in the homecare industry are largely ethnic minority women (Denton and Zeytinoglu, 1996;Denton et al, 1998). As well, age is increasingly becoming a factor in contingent employment as younger workers become concentrated in the expanding service sector, which is characterized by contingent jobs (Mayhew and Quinlan, 2002;Mills, 2004;Breslin et al, 2007).…”

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“…Workers are viewed not as pawns of the labor market but as active shapers of that market (Mills, 2004). Conceptually, there is no distinction between organizational and individual flexibility, and as Barker (1993) and Houseman (2001) observe any mismatch between employee and employer preferences is generally ignored.…”

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Contingent work and ill-health: Conceptualizing the links

Facey

Eakin

2010

Soc Theory Health

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Part-time, casual, contract, temporary and self-employment are some of the more commonly known forms of 'contingent work' . Recent employment surveys indicate an increase in these forms of work while permanent forms of employment have ostensibly declined. Contingent work has become a focus of concern for those interested in the effects of changing labor market patterns on health. There are however two significant impediments to understanding the contingent work and health relationship. First, its current conceptual apparatus is diffuse and inconsistent. Definitions of contingent work and the assumptions that underlie its numerous descriptors differ within and across disciplines. Second, there is little conceptual clarity around what aspects of contingent work might be related to health. In this article, we distil and synthesize literature from a range of disciplines and develop a framework for conceptualizing contingent work and its relationship to health. We suggest that low reciprocity, uncertainty, discontinuity and marginality are core concepts that underlie many conceptualizations of contingent work. Drawing on related theoretical insights and empirical findings from the literature, we identify possible structural, social and psychological pathways between these four features of contingent work and ill health.

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Demand for flexibility or generation of insecurity? The individualization of risk, irregular work shifts and Canadian youth

Cited by 30 publications

References 23 publications

Balans en toekomst van de sociologie

Balans en toekomst van de sociologie

Learning Workers: Young New Zealanders and Early Career Development

Contingent work and ill-health: Conceptualizing the links

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