Post-crisis precarity: Understanding attitudes to work and industrial relations among young people in the UK

Berry, Craig; McDaniel, Sean

doi:10.1177/0143831x19894380

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“…For example, Thomas had a degree and 7 different jobs in order to attempt to make a living, 5 of which were ZHCs. These findings corroborate the arguments that such employment is marked by low‐pay, job instability, insufficient and variable hours, as precarious work is becoming increasingly normalized (Berry & McDaniel, 2022; Rubery et al., 2018). This research reveals new features of precarization (see Alberti et al., 2018), where these workers needed to have multiple jobs due to constrained job availability and the proliferation of low‐pay, ZHCs, HVHs and outsourced work.…”

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“…The focus of our article is on employment precarity, and several scholars argue that the development of a ‘flexible’ deregulated labour market has created increasingly polarized employment (Clark et al., 2022; Green, 2006; Standing, 2011), with manifold inequalities experienced by those at the lower end of the labour market. This is marked by deep‐rooted structural issues of low‐pay, employment insecurity, ZHCs or variable working hours, and widespread precarity (Berry & McDaniel, 2022; Clark et al., 2022; Rubery et al., 2018). Alberti et al.…”

Section: The Employment Relationship Working Time and Precarious Zero...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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‘It was doing my head in’: Low‐paid multiple employment and zero hours work

Smith

McBride

2022

Brit J Industrial Rel

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This article explores the lived experiences and working time complexities of low-paid workers in legitimate multiple employment and zero hours work. Based on detailed qualitative research, these workers have 2, 3, 4, 5 and even different jobs out of necessity due to low-pay, unpredictable working hours and employment precarity. The research reveals that workers need to be available for (potential) work at any point but may not actually be offered any hours, which we argue constitutes unremunerated labour time. The findings highlight a densification of working time with zero hours work as employers maximize productive effort into specifically numbered, demarcated and minimized working hours, which tightens the porosity of labour. There is a dual fragmentation and individualization of employment, as these workers traverse multiple, expansive, complex and dynamic temporalities of work. This study identifies new economic and temporal indeterminacies of labour, which fundamentally transform the employment relationship and wage-effort bargain.

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confidence: 81%

Section: The Employment Relationship Working Time and Precarious Zero...mentioning

confidence: 99%

‘It was doing my head in’: Low‐paid multiple employment and zero hours work

Smith

McBride

2022

Brit J Industrial Rel

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“…Employment rate. Young people between 20 and 34 years old Source: EPA However, as of 2020, due to the crisis caused by Covid-19, a change in trend will predictably be seen again (Berry and McDaniel, 2020). Also, the events that are currently caused by the Ukraine war will produce changes in the world economic situation that will affect the labor market.…”

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Gender gap decomposition in employment rate of young people

Andrés

Machí

2023

Economics &Amp; Sociology

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Differences in behavior between women and men have long been observed in the labor market. Occupational segregation, lack of equal opportunities and lower wages are still linked to the lower opportunity cost that leaving the labor market implies for women. In this paper we analyze, using decomposition techniques, the gap in the employment rate between young women and men. These techniques allow us to separate the weight of observed characteristics from the weight of preferences or unobserved factors. Our results reveal that both types of factors are relevant in the gender gap in the employment rate. Preferences or unobserved factors, such as the different perception that both genders have of family and involvement of women in housework, which leads to greater female labor abandonment, are likely to be behind the gender gap in the case of already having job.

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“…There is a gap in the existing literature with regard to the relationship between workrelated behaviour and the economic context (Berry and McDaniel, 2022). Moreover, the impact of a disruptive event can be felt differently across people (Akkermans et al, 2020).…”

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Perceived employability in a situation of crisis: the influence of the external context and perceived financial threat

Silva¹,

Gomes²,

Monteiro

2023

HESWBL

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PurposeThis study aims to analyse how people's perceived employability was affected during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This study explores individuals' perceived financial threat, age and work situation as factors that shape perceived employability.Design/methodology/approachData were collected via a survey at three different times between October 2020 and May 2021, which were chosen to reflect the evolution of the pandemic. The participants (n = 124) reported participants' perceived employability and financial threat during the pandemic in Portugal. Perceived employability is a multidimensional concept, as this includes the following scales: employment protective behaviour, employment risk, job-seeking behaviour, self-control and self-learning.FindingsParticipants' overall perceived employability failed to record significant variance over the period under analysis. Nevertheless, perceived employment protective behaviour decreased the most, especially in the case of young adults (aged 18 to 24). Individuals' perceived financial threat varied according to the external context, being lower during the last moment of data collection, which corresponded to the less-socially and economically restrictive period. Employees with the most stable work condition, i.e. with a permanent employment contract, were those who felt less financially threatened when compared to other respondents. A negative relationship between perceived employability and perceived financial threat was identified during the third moment of data collection.Originality/valueThe research informs about how individuals perceive themselves in a highly unpredictable and unstable context. The longitudinal approach shows how the external context affected people's perceived employability and financial threat throughout the pandemic.

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Post-crisis precarity: Understanding attitudes to work and industrial relations among young people in the UK

Cited by 24 publications

References 42 publications

‘It was doing my head in’: Low‐paid multiple employment and zero hours work

‘It was doing my head in’: Low‐paid multiple employment and zero hours work

Gender gap decomposition in employment rate of young people

Perceived employability in a situation of crisis: the influence of the external context and perceived financial threat

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