Precarious employment: understanding an emerging social determinant of health

J Benach, A Vives, M Amable… - Annual review of …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Employment precariousness is a social determinant that affects the health of workers,
families, and communities. Its recent popularity has been spearheaded by three main …

Über-alienated: Powerless and alone in the gig economy

P Glavin, A Bierman, S Schieman - Work and Occupations, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
While the gig economy has expanded rapidly in the last decade, few have studied the
psychological ramifications of working for an online labor platform. Guided by classical and …

[图书][B] The Digital Continent: placing Africa in planetary networks of work

MA Anwar, M Graham - 2022 - library.oapen.org
Only ten years ago, there were more internet users in countries like France or Germany than
in all of Africa put together. But much has changed in a decade. The year 2018 marks the …

Precarity of place: A complement to the growing precariat literature

S Banki - Precariat: Labour, work and politics, 2016 - api.taylorfrancis.com
The growing precarity literature offers some valuable ways of thinking about both the roots of
and responses to precarity, whether defined existentially, economically, or intersubjectively …

[图书][B] The trouble with passion: How searching for fulfillment at work fosters inequality

E Cech - 2021 - books.google.com
Probing the ominous side of career advice to" follow your passion," this data-driven study
explains how the passion principle fails us and perpetuates inequality by class, gender, and …

Explaining the relation between precarious employment and mental well-being. A qualitative study among temporary agency workers

K Bosmans, S Hardonk, N De Cuyper, C Vanroelen - Work, 2016 - content.iospress.com
BACKGROUND: From an employee-perspective, temporary agency employment can be
considered in two ways. According to the first perspective, agency jobs are associated with …

The extent and determinants of precarious employment in Europe

L Kretsos, I Livanos - International journal of manpower, 2016 - emerald.com
Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent and determinants of the so-
called precarious employment across Europe and using different measures and based on …

Involuntary non-standard employment in Europe

A Green, I Livanos - European Urban and Regional Studies, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
In some countries in Europe the economic crisis starting in 2008 was marked not only by a
rise in unemployment, but also by increases in individuals in part-time and temporary …

Sports psychology in the English Premier League:'It feels precarious and is precarious'

S Gilmore, C Wagstaff, J Smith - Work, Employment and …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
This article gives a rare account of the working life of a sports psychologist in the English
Premier League, the elite division in English professional football. It shows how members of …

'Disappearing workers': Foxconn in Europe and the changing role of temporary work agencies

R Andrijasevic, D Sacchetto - Work, employment and society, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
This article investigates the role of temporary work agencies (TWAs) at Foxconn's assembly
plants in the Czech Republic. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, it shows TWAs' …