Employment Stability in Spanish Labor Law: Between Regulatory Tradition and Social Reality

Baviera, Inmaculada

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“…The trend toward long-term professional stability in projected futures stands in sharp contrast to the short-term, unstable, and/or flexible futures predicted by theorists and most empirical research on employment precarity (Bauman, 2013; Bourdieu, 2000; Pugh, 2015; Sennett, 2007; Silva, 2012; Swidler, 1986; Tavory & Eliasoph, 2013; Vallas & Christin, 2018). Instead, these projected futures align with the historically strong prioritization of employment stability as a professional goal in Spain (Baviera, 2013; Beltrán de Heredia Ruiz, 2008). As Paula, a stably employed respondent, dismissively said: “it’s very Anglo-Saxon to think you’ll flow through life … In Spain we’re more [like], ‘I’ll stick my head in one place and here I’ll stay’” (stably employed).…”

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Narrative Continuity/Rupture: Projected Professional Futures amid Pervasive Employment Precarity

Ayala-Hurtado

2021

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As working conditions change worldwide, employment precarity is increasing, including for groups for whom such conditions are unexpected. This study investigates how members of one such group—educationally advantaged young adults—describe their professional futures in a context of unprecedented employment precarity where their expected trajectories are no longer easily achievable. Using 75 interviews with young university graduates in Madrid, Spain, I find that most young graduates drew on a long-standing cultural narrative, which I call the “achievement narrative,” to imagine future stable employment. Simultaneously, most denounced this narrative as fraudulent. To explain this finding, I draw on the concept of hysteresis: the mismatch between beliefs that are dependent on the past conditions that produced them and the available opportunities in the present. I argue that hysteresis can extend into future projections; projected futures can be guided by beliefs based on past conditions more than by lived experiences in the present. Further, I argue that the achievement narrative itself reinforces hysteresis in future projections due to its resonance and institutional support. The paper offers new insights into projected futures and employment precarity by analyzing the future projections of a privileged cohort facing unexpected precarity, further develops the concept of hysteresis, and extends the study of cultural narratives.

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Narrative Continuity/Rupture: Projected Professional Futures amid Pervasive Employment Precarity

Ayala-Hurtado

2021

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Employment Stability in Spanish Labor Law: Between Regulatory Tradition and Social Reality

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Narrative Continuity/Rupture: Projected Professional Futures amid Pervasive Employment Precarity

Narrative Continuity/Rupture: Projected Professional Futures amid Pervasive Employment Precarity

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