Mapping Precariousness, Labour Insecurity and Uncertain Livelihoods

Armano, Emiliana; Bove, Arianna; Murgia, Annalisa

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“…The nature and extent of precarious employment has multiple effects on various social dimensions indirectly linked to employment and work (57), triggering a multiple social vulnerabilization process that defines the "precarious condition" (58,59). In addition to the direct impact that precarious employment has on health, there are four social consequences of precarious employment that might have an impact on workers' health: (i) the exposure to occupational risks factors suffered by precarious workers, (ii) impoverishment and material deprivation, (iii) uncertainty, and (iv) the erosion of social support networks (Figure 1).…”

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Precarious Employment and Stress: The Biomedical Embodiment of Social Factors. PRESSED Project Study Protocol

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The PRESSED project aims to explain the links between a multidimensional measure of precarious employment and stress and health. Studies on social epidemiology have found a clear positive association between precarious employment and health, but the pathways and mechanisms to explain such a relationship are not well-understood. This project aims to fill this gap from an interdisciplinary perspective, integrating the social and biomedical standpoints to comprehensively address the complex web of consequences of precarious employment and its effects on workers' stress, health and well-being, including health inequalities. The project objectives are: (1) to analyze the association between multidimensional precarious employment and chronic stress among salaried workers in Barcelona, measured both subjectively and using biological indicators; (2) to improve our understanding of the pathways and mechanisms linking precarious employment with stress, health and well-being; and (3) to analyze health inequalities by gender, social class and place of origin for the first two objectives. The study follows a sequential mixed design. First, secondary data from the 2017 Survey on Workers and the Unemployed of Barcelona is analyzed (N = 1,264), yielding a social map of precarious employment in Barcelona that allows the contextualization of the scope and characteristics of this phenomenon. Drawing on these results, a second survey on a smaller sample (N = 255) on precarious employment, social precariousness and stress is envisaged. This study population is also asked to provide a hair sample to have their levels of cortisol and its related components, biomarkers of chronic stress, analyzed. Third, a sub-sample of the latter survey (n = 25) is selected to perform qualitative semi-structured interviews. This allows going into greater depth into how and why the experience of uncertainty, the precarization of living conditions, and the degradation of working conditions go hand-in-hand with precarious employment and have an impact on stress, as well as to explore the potential role of social support networks in mitigating these effects.

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Section: Social Pathways Of Precarious Employment and Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Precarious Employment and Stress: The Biomedical Embodiment of Social Factors. PRESSED Project Study Protocol

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Belvis

Jódar

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“…Det finnes mange teoretiske dypdykk i bruken av de engelske ekvivalentene av begrepene om det prekaere (precarity, precariousness) og prekariatet (the precariat) hvor det gjøres forsøk på å etablere begrepsdefinisjoner (se f.eks. Armano et al, 2019;Choonara, 2019Choonara, , 2020Kalleberg & Vallas, 2017a;Schierup & Jørgensen, 2017). Til tross for liten enighet i den internasjonale litteraturen om hva som er prekaert og hva begrepet om det prekaere egentlig betyr, brukes prekariat for å tegne opp sentrale kjennetegn ved norsk samtid (se f.eks.…”

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Prekærbegrepene – en teoretisk fristelse og forbannelse

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2021

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Nyansene i begrepene om det prekaere blir sjelden helt synlig, noe som er empirisk og teoretisk uheldig. Artikkelen sorterer prekaerbegrepenes (prekaritet, prekarisering, prekariatet) teoretiske antakelser og visualiserer et uforutsigbart teoretisk terreng ved å kaste lys over hvordan innholdet i begrepet om det prekaere har endret seg. Artikkelen illustrerer fire teoretiske distinksjoner og plaserer prekaerbegrepene i en bredere arbeidslivsteoretisk ramme. Hva som er ansett som prekaert er kontekstuelt avhengig, og som sosiologisk instrument må det settes i relasjon til det som betraktes som norm.

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“…All in all, young people in Italy are deeply concerned with precariousness (Armano, Bove, and Murgia 2017), which is first and foremost a precariousness of working conditions (difficulties in finding a job, difficulties in securing for themselves acceptable contractual conditions) that makes the issue a generational one (Barbieri 2011). Yet this has, of course, important repercussions in other spheres of life too.…”

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