When Non-Standard Work Becomes Precarious: Insights from the New Zealand Call Centre Industry

Hannif, Zeenobiyah; Lamm, Felicity

doi:10.5771/0935-9915-2005-3-324

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“…(1) labour market security, i.e., adequate employment opportunities, (2) employment security, i.e., protection against arbitrary dismissal, (3) job security, i.e., opportunities for employability, (4) work security, i.e., workplace rights, (5) skill reproduction security, i.e., training and skill development, (6) income security and (7) representation security, i.e., protection of collective voice. Other authors have taken into consideration both approaches in building their own concepts of precarious employment [20][21][22]. However in some cases these conceptualizations also incorporate aspects of working conditions and the content of work, which may be considered undesirable from a conceptual point of view.…”

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Measuring employment precariousness in the European Working Conditions Survey: The social distribution in Europe

Puig-Barrachina

Vanroelen

Vives

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Background: Precarious employment is becoming an increasingly important social determinant of health inequalities among workers. The way in which contemporary employment arrangements and their health consequences are addressed in empirical research is mostly based on the contract-related or employment instability dimension. A broader conceptual approach including various important characteristics of the degrading of employment conditions and relations is needed. Objective: The general objective of this paper is to empirically test a new multidimensional construct for measuring precarious employment in an existing database. Special focus is on the social distribution of precarious employment. Methods: A subsample of 21,415 participants in the EU-27 from the Fourth European Working Conditions Survey-2005 was analysed. A cross-sectional study of the social distribution of precarious employment was conducted through the analysis of proportional differences according to gender, social class and credentials for the European Union as a whole and within each country. The 8 dimensions of the Employment Precariousness Construct were represented by 11 indicators. Results: In general, women, workers without supervisory authority, those with fewer credentials, and those living in Eastern and Southern European countries suffer the highest levels of precarious employment. Exceptionally, men, workers with supervisory authority and those with the highest credentials suffer the highest levels of long working hours, schedule unpredictability and uncompensated flexible working times. Conclusions: This article offers the first validation for an innovative multidimensional conceptualisation of employment precariousness applied to the analysis of existing survey data, showing the unequal distribution of precarious employment across the European labour force. This set of indicators can be useful for exposure surveillance of precarious employment.

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Measuring employment precariousness in the European Working Conditions Survey: The social distribution in Europe

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Vanroelen

Vives

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“…6 Across national differences, the process of precarization meant both the transformation of open‐end, full‐time standard work forms to flexible, temporary working arrangements and the emergence of new, insecure forms of work. As Hannif and Lamm (2005) argue, “those in precarious employment often earn significantly less, work less desirable hours, face greater job insecurity and have access to fewer entitlements than their counterparts in more secure positions” (325). According to Barbier (2008), the concept of precarity and precarious work appears in the academic discussion because of French sociology in the early 1980s as a qualitative description of seasonal or temporary employment (Bourdieu and Accardo 1993; Castel 1995) and then diffused in other national academic fields, like the Italian one 7 .…”

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The Contentious Field of Precarious Work in Italy: Political Actors, Strategies and Coalitions

Choi¹,

Mattoni

2010

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This article aims to present an empirically grounded analysis of the field of actors mobilized against precarious work in Italy. Based on extensive fieldwork including interviews and document analysis, we discuss and compare four types of social and political actors and their organizing patterns: traditional trade unions, radical trade unions, groups of self-organized precarious workers, and grassroots activist groups. The underlying questions focus on patterns of organization and coalition building. By analyzing how precarious workers organize, which goals they have, which kinds of collective actions they engage in, and how they connect to other actors, we found that distinctive strategies lead to diverse degrees of agency and subjectivity that precarious workers develop, ranging from almost nonexistent to high degrees of subjectivity.Recent transformations in the Italian labor market toward more flexible forms of employment lead to a broader diffusion of precarious work, especially among younger generations, women, and migrants. Despite the existence of many studies about labor market flexibility and precarity in Italy, there is only a small amount of publications dealing with the organization of precarious workers struggling to improve their working and living conditions. 2 Among these publications, empirically grounded analyses that compare different actors organizing precarious workers are seldom. Drawing on different strands of literature, such as social movement studies and labor and industrial relation studies, we adopt a comparative perspective on the contentious field related to precarious work.The results we present in this article are based on extensive fieldwork revolving around three sets of data sources: forty-one semistructured interviews 3 ; official documents like public declarations and collective agreements; documents produced during protest events and campaigns like call for actions and leaflets. We analyzed and compared the data constructed during the fieldwork according to a qualitative analysis strategy focusing on four dimensions linked to collective action that we introduce below.This article develops as follows. The first subsection presents a critical literature review about the concept of precarious work and precarity that also serves to introduce a working definition for our understanding of precarious Workingusa

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“…Su aumento se puede observar tanto en economías europeas (Gleason, 2006) como asiáticas (Houseman y Osawa, 2003;Hannif y Lamm, 2005;Gleason, 2006) y del norte de América (Krahn, 1995;Kalleberg, 2000;Gleason, 2006). Es importante destacar la relación del trabajo a tiempo parcial con la mano de obra femenina (Booth y Van Ours, 2010;Conolly y Gregory, 2010;Blázquez y Moral, 2014).…”

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“…Para las empresas esta situación implica mayores costos administrativos conforme aumenta el número de empleados, por lo que reducir el ingreso de los trabajadores a tiempo parcial compensa el problema administrativo (Maurizio, 2016). En otras palabras, el empleo a tiempo parcial se vincula con salarios menores (Bollé, 1997) y, por lo tanto, inducen a desigualdades salariales.Investigaciones en los países desarrollados muestran que el número de trabajadores a tiempo parcial se ha acrecentado (Bollé, 1997;Kalleberg, 2000;Houseman y Osawa, 2003;Hannif y Lamm, 2005;Gleason, 2006). Lo anterior como una estrategia para enfrentar los problemas del desempleo (Bollé, 1997).…”

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“…Se considera como tiempo parcial al trabajo que cubre menos de 35 horas semanales. Aun y cuando existen diferencias entre países sobre las horas que deben ser consideradas para un trabajo parcial (Kalleberg, 2000), en este documento se consideran las que establece la OIT.Con base en algunos estudios anteriores, se sabe que el empleo a tiempo parcial ha ido en aumento en las economías desarrolladas (Krahn, 1995;Bollé, 1997;Kalleberg, 2000;Houseman y Osawa, 2003;Hannif y Lamm, 2005;Gleason, 2006). De hecho, la Eurostat (2015) reporta un aumento, en diez años, de la proporción de la población laboral (15-64 años de edad) de 28 países de la Unión Europea, cuyo empleo principal es a tiempo parcial: 16.7 a 19.6% para 2004 y 2014, respectivamente.…”

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When Non-Standard Work Becomes Precarious: Insights from the New Zealand Call Centre Industry

Cited by 15 publications

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Measuring employment precariousness in the European Working Conditions Survey: The social distribution in Europe

Measuring employment precariousness in the European Working Conditions Survey: The social distribution in Europe

The Contentious Field of Precarious Work in Italy: Political Actors, Strategies and Coalitions

Trabajo a tiempo parcial y desigualdad salarial en la industria manufacturera en México (2005-2015)

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