‘I don’t want to be a vagrant for the rest of my life’: young peoples’ experiences of precarious work as a ‘continuous present’

Bone, Kate

doi:10.1080/13676261.2019.1570097

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“…Scholars addressed these issues in the neoliberal re-structuring of higher education through the lens of precarity. Focusing on livelihoods of precarious academics, studies have emphasised how gendered and racialised experiences of insecurity, depression, and instability due to short-term contracts, heavy workload, and competitive job market are internalised, instrumentalised, culturally reproduced, and resisted (Bone, 2019;Bothello and Roulet, 2019;Burton, 2018;Hofman, 2018;Ivancheva, 2015: 40-41;Standing, 2011;Thorkelson, 2016). Scholars have argued that early career academics of colour and women are prone to work under insecure contracts (Joseph-Salisbury et al 2020: 15) and have to work harder to assert themselves in academia without the institutional support senior male academics enjoy (Burton 2018: 122).…”

Section: Precarity In the Uk Higher Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There are degrees and 'hierarchies of precariousness' in academia arising from 'structural features of employment (such as employment contract type, access to leave entitlements, labour market trends) as well as contextual/structural factors that affect the lives of workers (including their sense of security, housing options, effect on personal relationships)' (Bone 2019(Bone : 1219. For example, precarious academics are faced with the 'stratification between research and teaching' (Ivancheva 2015: 39) as the first attracts more income for the university (Deem and Lucas 2007: 125).…”

Section: Precarity In the Uk Higher Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Precarity during the pandemic could only be instrumentalised by those in the better-off research positions with favourable living conditions, i.e. in higher levels of 'hierarchies of precariousness' (Bone 2019(Bone : 1219.…”

Section: Analysis: Negotiating the Different Degrees Of Precarity Undmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…skill reproduction, work, job market, representation) in the working environment and the job market within the context neoliberalism (Standing 2011). Furthermore, scholars have defined precarity a form of socio-cultural reproduction through which precarity is internalised, contested, and deliberated (Bone 2019;Harris and Nowicki 2018). Building on the latter two strands, in this on-going study, we approach precarity as a multilayered term signifying (gendered) casualisation of labour, labourrelated insecurities and their navigation in uncertain working environments and the job market.…”

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Negotiating the different degrees of precarity in the UK academia during the Covid-19 pandemic

Kınıkoğlu

Can

2020

European Societies

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This study explores how early career academics negotiate precarity in the higher education sector in the United Kingdom under the amplified uncertainties brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our preliminary findings based on the semi-structured interviews with nine early career academics (six women and three men) shed light on varying experiences of early career academic precarity with regard to working and life routines, and their participation in the job market. We argue that early career academics' gender, employment status, and their university affiliations influence the degree to which they are able to instrumentalise and negotiate precarity during the pandemic in the UK.

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Section: Precarity In the Uk Higher Educationmentioning

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Section: Precarity In the Uk Higher Educationmentioning

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Section: Analysis: Negotiating the Different Degrees Of Precarity Undmentioning

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Negotiating the different degrees of precarity in the UK academia during the Covid-19 pandemic

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2020

European Societies

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“…Young people make active choices in their present based on an anticipated and imagined future. For those that seek the flexibility that precarious work provides, it can help them to achieve a short-term goal or bring about a 'desired change in circumstance' (Bone, 2019(Bone, : 1232, such as funding a period of travel abroad or further study. For those young people who hold longer-term personal ambitions which ultimately require financial and biographical security, precarious work may actively prevent such a change in circumstance, forcing them to inhabit what Bone (2019) calls a 'continuous present', where the perceived security of the future is routinely deferred and perpetually out of reach.…”

Section: Th E Growth Of Precarious Workmentioning

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Living life to the full? Temporary employment and youth biographies in the wake of the 2008 Recession

Cartwright¹

2020

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A bstract Young people have made up a significant proportion of temporary workers in the labour market for some time. However, during the 2008 recession and for some time after, many were compelled to undertake such contracts in the absence of stable alternatives. Young peoples' engagement with paid work is fundamental in helping them achieve biographical goals and ambitions, whether these are related to employment or personal interests. This paper presents qualitative data obtained through interviews with a number of young temporary workers in 2012 and demonstrates both how 'temping' is experienced and how such work impacts upon personal lives and aspirations for the future. Contributing to existing debates on changing youth transitions, it illustrates how engagement with temporary work can be enabling for those with short-term goals but conversely, disabling for those who seek the long-term commitments typically associated with reaching adulthood. More worryingly, it reveals how such work can trap young people in a meaningless 'perpetual present' of suspended adulthood, leading to feelings of powerlessness and pessimism about the future.

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Continuing the precedent: Financially disadvantaging young people in "unprecedented" COVID‐19 times

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Daley

2021

Aust J Social Issues

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The COVID‐19 pandemic is both a health and an economic crisis. Economically, lockdowns across Australia have devastated business and industry, creating immediate spikes in under‐ and unemployment. These impacts intersect with the precarious labour market of casualised and "gig" economy work, where young workers constitute an established and substantial group. While negatively impacting upon many young people’s lives, in recent decades precarious employment has also been normalised for young people as they are encouraged to understand themselves as self‐reliant and entrepreneurial in their working lives. Yet, these workers have been largely abandoned in the government’s economic response to COVID‐19. The economic impact and government response to the pandemic substantially disadvantage young people. This article analyses the impact of new government initiatives: the "JobKeeper" wage subsidy scheme, "JobSeeker" payments and early access to superannuation, "JobMaker" economic recovery plan and the redesign of university fees. These initiatives compound preexisting youth policy of low welfare levels, youth wages and high university fees to economically burden young people. Contrasting the repeated expression of anything pandemic related as "unprecedented", we argue that the economic abandonment of young people in the immediate COVID‐19 crisis continues a decades‐long precedent in Australia of economically disadvantaging young people.

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‘I don’t want to be a vagrant for the rest of my life’: young peoples’ experiences of precarious work as a ‘continuous present’

Cited by 31 publications

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Negotiating the different degrees of precarity in the UK academia during the Covid-19 pandemic

Negotiating the different degrees of precarity in the UK academia during the Covid-19 pandemic

Living life to the full? Temporary employment and youth biographies in the wake of the 2008 Recession

Continuing the precedent: Financially disadvantaging young people in "unprecedented" COVID‐19 times

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