2016
DOI: 10.1017/s0147547916000028
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Precarious Labor, South and North: An Introduction

Abstract: This special issue on precarious labor in global perspective includes analyses of precarious work in South Africa, Mexico, the United States, China and India. The key strengths of the contributions to this issue are that they demonstrate precarious workers’ capacity for collective action, the hidden forms of work that are not tracked by states, long-term historical continuities of precarious work, and differences between precarious work in the Global North and South. This introduction explores the challenges o… Show more

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“…Street‐involved women—along with most of their family members, intimate partners, and others in their social circles—have a set of shared precarities co‐constituted by the persistent absence in their lives of the socioeconomic and community supports that dominant North American cultural norms regard as necessary to well‐being. Precarity often features in international labor and migration studies to denote pervasive conditions of insecurity, danger, and uncertainty (Mosoetsa, Stillerman, and Tiller ). Yet most significantly, precarity is a state of being in which individuals suffer from long‐term lack with respect to stable work that pays a living wage, opportunities for advancement, and the ability to represent their collective interests in the society of which they are a part (Standing ).…”
Section: Situating Maternal Subjectivities Within Shared Precaritiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Street‐involved women—along with most of their family members, intimate partners, and others in their social circles—have a set of shared precarities co‐constituted by the persistent absence in their lives of the socioeconomic and community supports that dominant North American cultural norms regard as necessary to well‐being. Precarity often features in international labor and migration studies to denote pervasive conditions of insecurity, danger, and uncertainty (Mosoetsa, Stillerman, and Tiller ). Yet most significantly, precarity is a state of being in which individuals suffer from long‐term lack with respect to stable work that pays a living wage, opportunities for advancement, and the ability to represent their collective interests in the society of which they are a part (Standing ).…”
Section: Situating Maternal Subjectivities Within Shared Precaritiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…147 Informal workers organize for different demands: protecting access to markets, defending public resources, expanding citizenship rights, demanding social protection, 113 or advocating for infrastructure improvements. 36,113,148 Indeed, collective action by informal workers changes urban policy. 67 In Ahmedabad, India, the organization Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) helped pass the Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending Act while in Lima, vendor organizations won pro-vendor policy at the city and national level.…”
Section: From Formalization To Reparationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…De manera similar, Mosoetsa et al (2016) plantean que algunos de los supuestos teóricos sobre el trabajo precario como objeto de estudio requieren reconsiderarse. En particular, ampliar el alcance en las investigaciones al incluir otras zonas o contextos geográficos.…”
Section: Aproximaciones Teóricas a La Precariedad Laboralunclassified