Let’s Kill the Messenger! The Reception and Recognition of the Precarity Movement and Argument in Finland

Jakonen, Mikko

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“…While the growing importance of precarity is recognised in Finnish research (Jakonen, 2015), effective universalist institutions in industrial relations and the welfare state have protected Finnish workers from the worst effects of precarity and labour market segmentation (Mustosm€ aki, 2017). Finnish employers have instead turned to migrants as a way of getting around this because for a variety of reasons it is easier to exclude migrants from protections.…”

Section: Labour Market Segmentation and African Migrants In Finlandmentioning

confidence: 99%

Essential? COVID-19 and highly educated Africans in Finland’s segmented labour market

Ndomo

Bontenbal

Lillie

2022

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to characterise the position of highly educated African migrants in the Finnish labour market and to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on that position.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is based on the biographical work stories of 17 highly educated African migrant workers in four occupation areas in Finland: healthcare, cleaning, restaurant and transport. The sample was partly purposively and partly theoretically determined. The authors used content driven thematic analysis technique, combined with by the biographical narrative concept of turning points.FindingsUsing the case of highly educated African migrants in the Finnish labour market, the authors show how student migration policies reinforce a pattern of division of labour and occupations that allocate migrant workers to typical low skilled low status occupations in the secondary sector regardless of level of education, qualification and work experience. They also show how the unique labour and skill demands of the COVID-19 pandemic incidentally made these typical migrant occupations essential, resulting in increased employment and work security for this group of migrant workers.Research limitations/implicationsThis research and the authors’ findings are limited in scope owing to sample size and methodology. To improve applicability of findings, future studies could expand the scope of enquiry using e.g. quantitative surveys and include other stakeholders in the study group.Originality/valueThe paper adds to the knowledge on how migration policies contribute to labour market dualisation and occupational segmentation in Finland, illustrated by the case of highly educated African migrant workers.

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Section: Labour Market Segmentation and African Migrants In Finlandmentioning

confidence: 99%

Essential? COVID-19 and highly educated Africans in Finland’s segmented labour market

Ndomo

Bontenbal

Lillie

2022

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“…Although traditionally the focus of the Finnish sociology of work has been focused on the work of wage-earners (Aho 2004;Kinnunen and Suikkanen 2009;Koistinen 2009), the 2000s have seen a proliferation of studies on precarisation in Finnish working life, encompassing different atypical forms of employment (Jakonen 2015). The Finnish precariat movement criticizes the traditional left for idealising wage work, while seeking grounds for a movement that goes beyond wage work.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Palgrave Handbook of the Sociology of Work in Europe

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Durand²,

Richea³

2019

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This chapter looks into the development of the sociology of work in Finland. In the process of the development, two phases are considered: 1) the development of the welfare state (1945-1980s) marked by the consolidation of the sociology of work as a sub-discipline, and 2) the rise of the competition state (late 1980s-present) when the scope of the studies in the sociology of work was widened. Although the Finnish sociology of work has been equally influenced by positivist, reformist and critical approaches, it has maintained its fundamentally consensual nature through both periods, and critical paradigms challenging the social order have never assumed a central role. There appears to be a considerable "reformistic" tendency in the Finnish sociology of work, aiming at producing solutions to societal problems, and in many cases in the form of action-oriented research and developmental projects. This reflects the overall pragmatic nature of Finnish policy-making and close social distance between the government, labour market organizations and the academia. market or unemployment, identify themselves equally as "working life researchers" as sociologists.So do a fair number of management scholars, social scientists (other than sociologists) and psychologists. However, there is a special link between the topic of working life research and sociology. Many sociologists of work in Finland are members of both the Finnish Sociological Association and the Finnish Association of Work Life Research and they publish their papers in scientific journals and participate in annual conferences of both associations. The inter-disciplinary approach to the subject has led to a situation in which the boundaries of sociological research of work in relation to, for example, organization studies, management studies, work psychological studies or work-related studies that have been conducted in Finnish universities under social policy have become flexible and blurring.In the 1950s and 1960s, modern American sociology was the most important single source of influence for Finnish academic sociology. This applied also the rising Finnish sociology of work, which at that time still constituted only a small stream of sociology in the country. In the 1970s and 1980s, a diversification of sociological research occurred in Finland, which led to a deepening division and occasional tensions between positivist, reformist and critical studies on work. External influences were now sought, besides the USA, also increasingly from Europe, including the UK, Germany, France and the other Nordic countries.The sociology of work has managed to strengthen its legitimacy in Finland in recent years among academic scholars, policy-makers and representatives of labour market organizations. This development owes to an increasing overall public interest in research on working life since the 1980s. This interest has manifested itself in the proliferation of institutional funding for working-life studies and action research inspired approaches, as well as thematic and...

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“…(Cingolani 1986. ) Prekarisaatio sai uuden ja täsmällisemmän sisällön 2000-luvun alussa, kun Pohjois-Italiasta käynnistyi prekariaattiliike ( Jakonen 2015;della Porta, Baglioni & Reiter 2015;Mattoni 2015. ) Liike levisi nopeasti Etelä-Eurooppaan sekä Ranskaan, Saksaan ja Pohjoismaihin.…”

Section: Työn Prekarisaatiounclassified

Let’s Kill the Messenger! The Reception and Recognition of the Precarity Movement and Argument in Finland

Cited by 3 publications

References 6 publications

Essential? COVID-19 and highly educated Africans in Finland’s segmented labour market

Essential? COVID-19 and highly educated Africans in Finland’s segmented labour market

The Palgrave Handbook of the Sociology of Work in Europe

Yhteisö tuotantovoimana : yhteisölliset työtilat ja prekaarin työvoiman liikkeet

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