Precarious work during precarious times: Addressing the compounding effects of race, gender, and immigration status

Cubrich, Marc; Tengesdal, Joren A.

doi:10.1017/iop.2021.42

Cited by 15 publications

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“…Scholars have proposed that precarity is especially threatening to workers under the age of 24 (Kalleberg, 2019), an age threshold that may involve heightened precarity as employees navigate transitions between education and employment. We expect that systemic factors contribute to the reasons why race might relate to differential exposure and vulnerability to precarious work (Cubrich & Tengesdal, 2021;Landsbergis et al, 2014); therefore, we code race as a binary distinction between white and minority employees. Additionally, minority as compared to white populations are more likely to experience chronic mental health symptoms and may struggle with underdiagnosis, prohibiting effective treatment (Bailey et al, 2019) and perceive cannabis use as riskier (Pacek et al, 2015).…”

Section: Control Variables Cannabis Use Mental Health and Absenteeismmentioning

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Joint effects: Where and How the Frequency of Cannabis Use Shapes the Relationship between Employee Mental Health and Sickness Absenteeism

Moughan,

Katz

2024

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This study explores how the frequency of employee cannabis use moderates the relationships between mental health and legal status of cannabis in predicting employee sickness absence. Analyzing a sample of 1,199 employed young adults in the United States from the most recent wave of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID): Transition into Adulthood Supplement (TAS), this study estimates zero-inflated Poisson regressions to predict the number of sickness absences employees reported over the past year. The results indicated that the legal status of cannabis interacted with frequency of cannabis use and depression to predict employee sickness absence. However, supplemental analyses examining sex indicated that the legal status of cannabis interacted with the frequency of cannabis use and anxiety to predict sickness absence. Our study contributes to the literature by moving beyond the main effects of substance use on sickness absence to explore how individual and environmental characteristics interact with frequency of cannabis use to predict sickness absence, using a nationally representative sample of recent data.

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Section: Control Variables Cannabis Use Mental Health and Absenteeismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Joint effects: Where and How the Frequency of Cannabis Use Shapes the Relationship between Employee Mental Health and Sickness Absenteeism

Moughan,

Katz

2024

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“… 23 Also limited is understanding how these dynamics differently impact workers at the intersection of social locations, such as racialized and immigrant status and gender. 24 , 25 Our community-based study initially set out to investigate experiences of work-related injury and illness when work is not stable or secure, including experiences with employers, workers’ compensation, and return-to-work. However, as the study commenced during the early stages of the pandemic, an additional focus was to document the impact of COVID-19 on workers, within the Toronto Bangladeshi community.…”

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The Health and Safety Experiences of Precariously Employed Bangladeshi Immigrant Workers in Toronto During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Premji,

Begum,

Laila

et al. 2024

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Racialized immigrants in Canada have been disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our qualitative, community-based study with South Asian Women and Immigrants’ Services examined the impact of the second and third waves of the pandemic on the work and health of precariously employed Bangladeshi immigrant women and men in Toronto. Our study is based on interviews and focus group discussions with 45 workers, all conducted in Bangla, and 11 key informants. Interviews reveal work transitions, an increase in precarity, work in essential sectors, exposures at work, home and in transit, workplace prevention and management gaps, and an inability to take time off, with significant impacts on workers’ physical and mental health. We discuss the implications of our findings for prevention, preparedness, and response by workplaces and governments to decrease the risk and reduce the impact of infectious diseases emergencies in the precarious work sector.

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“…The COVID‐19 pandemic significantly changed the workforce, exacerbating disparities, and widening inequalities for disadvantaged populations. During the pandemic, those who were displaced from their job were more likely to be younger, less educated, and racial/ethnic minorities, given that marginalized populations disproportionately had low‐wage and temporary jobs affected by social distance policies and restrictions for business operations (Cubrich & Tengesdal, 2021). Unfortunately, this trend will continue with decreasing employability in the occupations of less educated, low‐skilled workers (Ice et al., 2021).…”

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Workplace learning for the disadvantaged: Perspectives from adult education and human resource development

Hwang,

Yoon

2023

New Dir Adult Contin Educ

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Along with the rapidly changing social and economic context accompanied by COVID‐19, concerns have been raised for the less‐educated, low‐wage workers who disproportionately experienced disadvantages in accessing workplace learning or training opportunities essential for job placement or career development. In response to the challenges of increasing discrepancies in workplace learning opportunities, this paper suggested workplace learning as an area that needs more attention from multidisciplinary perspectives to support the needs of disadvantaged populations. The authors reviewed research trends on workplace learning from adult education (AE) and human resource development (HRD) disciplines and discussed common areas and research gaps. The paper suggested advancing workplace learning theories and building empirical evidence for disadvantaged populations in various workplace contexts through complementary collaboration between AE and HRD.

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Precarious work during precarious times: Addressing the compounding effects of race, gender, and immigration status

Cited by 15 publications

References 17 publications

Joint effects: Where and How the Frequency of Cannabis Use Shapes the Relationship between Employee Mental Health and Sickness Absenteeism

Joint effects: Where and How the Frequency of Cannabis Use Shapes the Relationship between Employee Mental Health and Sickness Absenteeism

The Health and Safety Experiences of Precariously Employed Bangladeshi Immigrant Workers in Toronto During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Workplace learning for the disadvantaged: Perspectives from adult education and human resource development

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