Working precarious careers trajectories: tracing neoliberal discourses in younger workers’ narratives

Sofritti, Federico; Benozzo, Angelo; Carey, Neil; Pizzorno, Maria Chiara

doi:10.1080/13676261.2019.1654602

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“…Strategic planning is critical for successful careers particularly in the United States, which lacks institutional mechanisms that send graduates to employers. Furthermore, the rising trend of neoliberalism in recent decades has increased individual workers’ responsibilities to strategically invest in themselves, take personal risks in finding jobs, and continuously assess their career progress (Mrozowicki and Trappmann 2021; Sofritti et al 2020).…”

Section: Career Plans In Young Adulthoodmentioning

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LGBTQ Identities and Career Plan Changes in Young Adulthood: Implications for Occupational Segregation and Disparities

Ueno,

Dominguez,

Bastow

et al. 2023

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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Many young adults change their career plans after spending some time in the labor force, and those who hold marginalized identities change their plans in unique ways as they respond to unfair treatments in workplaces. Past research on this topic focused on (cisgender) women and people of color, and little is known about how LGBTQ people change their career plans. Furthermore, many LGBTQ youth today develop optimistic views that their sexual and gender identities will not undermine their career opportunities, but the existing literature provides limited information about whether they maintain such views after their transition to the labor force and how they change their career plans if their perceptions of career disadvantages change. To fill these gaps in the literature, the authors analyzed longitudinal data from in-depth interviews with 37 LGBTQ young adults, who were followed over 2 to 10 years at 2-year intervals. The data showed that young LGBTQ workers’ career plan changes were intertwined with their sexual and gender identities. For example, some participants decided to move to more LGBTQ-friendly careers after experiencing workplace harassment and heteronormativity and cisnormativity, and those who had entered careers that allowed them to integrate their LGBTQ identities into work decided to leave the careers because of emotional burnout. Overall, the results suggest that LGBTQ people’s career plan adjustments to identity-related challenges at work operate as a worker-level mechanism that contributes to labor market segregation and financial disparities between LGBTQ and straight, cisgender workers.

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Section: Career Plans In Young Adulthoodmentioning

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LGBTQ Identities and Career Plan Changes in Young Adulthood: Implications for Occupational Segregation and Disparities

Ueno,

Dominguez,

Bastow

et al. 2023

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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“…Accordingly, it can be argued that the increase in precarious working conditions will positively affect union attitudes (Burrows, 2013). However, although job insecurity among women, youth, white-collar workers, service sector workers, part-time workers and immigrant workers is at an extreme level, the rate of unionization has remained very low (Allvin & Sverke, 2000;Young, 2010;MacDonald, 2016;Sofritti et al, 2020;Fiorito et al, 2021). The fact that there has been a rapid increase in the number of non-traditional employment contracts makes it much more difficult for employees to organize has been blamed as the main driver for this.…”

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Precarious Job and Union Tendencies among Women and Young Employees: The Relationships between Economic Constraints, Job Security and Trust in Employers

Sarıipek

Aybas

Stanikūnienė

2023

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The aim of this study is to examine whether having a precarious job (low job security) increases union tendencies among female workers and young workers. The study examines the relationship between economic constraints, trust in employers and union attitudes in terms of gender and age in the context of the antecedents and consequences of job security. Data were collected using a survey conducted among 804 Turkish employees working in various sectors and analysed through multi-group path models, t-tests and ANOVA to measure job security objectively and subjectively. Economic constraints increase the acceptance of low job security and decrease trust towards employers. The research also indicates that poorer job security does not affect collective and union tendencies. While precarious jobs are more intense among young and women employees, there is no difference in their union tendencies. This article used the decent work perspective to explore the consequences of having a precarious job among women and young workers in Turkey. We assumed that the perception of precariousness reduces trust towards employers and strengthens collective and union tendencies. We also argue that economic constraints play an important role in choosing precarious jobs. We also test whether women and young employees, as two prominent disadvantaged groups, have collective efficacy and union efficacy in precarious job conditions.

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“…In questa prima configurazione relazionale tra le generazioni il coinvolgimento degli junior appare marginale e povero. Il mercato del lavoro è concepito dai senior come un "mare infinito" dove vale il principio della "selezione naturale" (Sofritti et al, 2019). Si possono trovare sempre nuove persone da mettere alla prova, sperando che autonomamente capiscano come lavorare, salvo essere sostituite fino ad individuare chi, tra i tanti, viene giudicato adeguato.…”

Section: L'ingresso Ed Il Coinvolgimento Nel Contesto Organizzativounclassified

Le forme di scambio tra le generazioni nei contesti organizzativi: la transizione dei neolaureati al mondo del lavoro

Ripamonti

Bruno

Galuppo

et al. 2021

Ricerche Di Psicologia

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Scopo del lavoro è discutere quali processi generativi si possano attivare nella relazione tra senior e junior nei contesti di lavoro, durante il momento critico della socializzazione organizzativa dei più giovani. Il framework teorico utilizzato rimanda al costrutto di generatività, così come definito da Bradley e Marcia (1998) e da Cigoli e Scabini (2006). Viene presentato uno studio qualitativo condotto mediante interviste narrative a 24 professionisti senior e 24 junior. Le narrazioni raccolte mostrano differenti tipologie di relazione tra senior e junior, riconducibili a diverse forme di generatività. Tali risultati consentono di discutere il rapporto tra generatività e socializzazione organizzativa, e di riflettere su quale contributo possano dare i lavoratori senior alla socializzazione organizzativa dei più giovani.

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Working precarious careers trajectories: tracing neoliberal discourses in younger workers’ narratives

Cited by 12 publications

References 52 publications

LGBTQ Identities and Career Plan Changes in Young Adulthood: Implications for Occupational Segregation and Disparities

LGBTQ Identities and Career Plan Changes in Young Adulthood: Implications for Occupational Segregation and Disparities

Precarious Job and Union Tendencies among Women and Young Employees: The Relationships between Economic Constraints, Job Security and Trust in Employers

Le forme di scambio tra le generazioni nei contesti organizzativi: la transizione dei neolaureati al mondo del lavoro

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