Becoming Precarious Subjects

2021 ◽  
pp. 149-164
Author(s):  
Joseph Sung-Yul Park
Keyword(s):  
White Collar ◽  
Fear Of Failure ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Korean Society ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
Fierce Competition ◽  
Conditions Of Work ◽  
Work And Life

This chapter considers the consequences of the subjectivities of English explored in the previous chapters, exploring how they contribute to the condition of extreme precarity of contemporary Korean society. Through Korea’s neoliberal transformation, work and life has grown significantly insecure. In particular, unemployment of the younger generation has reached a historical high, and fear of failure leads this generation to continuously invest in accumulation of marketable skills and to forgo life itself so that they may survive in the fierce competition in the job market. Through an analysis of how criteria for good English in the white-collar job market have been constantly raised and renewed over the decades since the 1990s, this chapter argues that subjectivities of English promoted in neoliberalism may groom workers to be precarious subjects by aligning their hopes and expectations about life and labor with the insecure and uncertain conditions of work under the neoliberal economy.

scholarly journals On the influence of external environmental factors on the excretion of water by the kidneys

1929 ◽  
Vol 25 (10) ◽  
pp. 1020-1029
Author(s):  
G. S. Belenky
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
External Environment ◽  
Clinical Diagnostics ◽  
The Body ◽  
Practical Reasons ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Excretory Function ◽  
Physiological Processes ◽  
Conditions Of Work ◽  
Work And Life

More and more facts of the influence of the environment on the physiological processes of the body are accumulating at our disposal. The interaction between the environment and the activity of the entire nervous system (including the vegetative one), the activity of the cardiovascular system, digestive function, external and internal secretion, basic metabolism, etc. can be considered to a certain extent elucidated. We are interested in the question of the influence of the external environment on the activity of a healthy kidney, because this influence has to be taken into account already for practical reasons: 1) for preventive purposes, in order to be able to commensurate the strength and ability of the kidney to carry out its most important excretory function for the body with the load that in her daily work she receives from the external environment, from the conditions of work and life of her bearer, 2) for the purpose of clinical diagnostics when using, for example, a water sample, and also 3) in order to achieve the greatest effect of balneological drinking therapy.

scholarly journals Socioeconomic integration of early professional Hong Kongers in Taipei, Taiwan

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-29
Author(s):  
Lan Hung Nora Chiang ◽  
Ping Lin
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Cultural Integration ◽  
Host Society ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Socioeconomic Integration ◽  
Stages Of Economic Development

This study applies the thesis of privileged migration to early Hong Kongers coming to Taiwan since the early 1960s as a case study in ‘North–South’ migration that takes place between regions that are in different stages of economic development. Its focus is on these immigrants’ economic achievements and their social and cultural integration in the host society. Qualitative methods were used to conduct face-to-face interviews with 40 Hong Kongers ranging in age from 39 to 77, most of whom were living in Taipei. They came as overseas Chinese students, employees, and marriage and family migrants. As most had received university educations or higher, their skills and working experiences met the demands of the Taiwan job market at the time, and they had all become successfully established in a variety of white-collar professional jobs. Despite cultural differences, they had developed careers, contributed to Taiwan’s economy, and integrated well, and most were not thinking of returning to Hong Kong.

scholarly journals Reinsertion of the aging worker on job market: is cluster an alternative?

2007 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-70
Author(s):  
Flávio Henrique dos Santos Foguel ◽  
Miguel Arantes Normanha Filho
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Job Market ◽  
The Family ◽  
Aging Worker ◽  
Aging People ◽  
Market Benefits ◽  
Conditions Of Work

This essay  focus  on the reinsertion of the aging worker,  specialized  worker,  connected  to  the productive  sector  of  micro,  small  and  middle companies,  satisfactorily  and  deservingly,  in  a cluster  or  in  a  Local  Productive  Arrangement (LPA), defined for this study as community. Aging people  is considered,  in  this work, as  a multiplier  of  knowledge,  bringing  as  consequence the  valuation  and  the  perpetuation  of  the  local culture, by means of the permanence of the new generations on their communities, resulting on a sustainable development. The study of this ques-tion is justified by the necessity of a greater com-mitment and effort  from each  society sector on creation of a new paradigm  to the work,  which includes the aging people reinsertion together the young  workers  insertion.  An  effort  which  will preserve  the  competitiveness  market  benefits with clear rules and borders, keeping the human development  and the  equity  as main objectives, which enlarges the child and the young formation focused  on  the  market  job,  creating  conditions of  work to  aging  people, that are abandoned  in many aspects of their social life, specially by the family, and that in its great majority are destitute of financial resources to live with dignity. 

scholarly journals The Silent Discrimination against Headscarved Professionals in the Turkish Labor Market: The Case of Women in the Banking Sector

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (20) ◽  
pp. 11324
Author(s):  
Hatice Karahan ◽  
Nigar Tugsuz
Keyword(s):  
Banking Sector ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Commercial Banking ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Corporate Values ◽  
The Public ◽  
Women In The Workplace ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Female Professionals ◽  
Depth Interviews

This study addresses the widespread discriminatory policies against headscarved professionals in the Turkish job market, by focusing on the female-intensive banking sector. Although the number of professionals wearing headscarves has increased since 2013 with the removal of the ban on headscarves for workers in the public sector, we argue that significant ideological discriminatory practices and bias against these women still exist. To expose this hidden reality and uncover its dynamics, we undertook exploratory in-depth interviews with 30 professionals from the Turkish banking sector, including both men and women. Our findings verify a severe underrepresentation of headscarved professionals in the commercial banking sector. Whereas, after 2013, state-owned banks began, to some extent, to recruit women wearing the headscarf, private commercial banks have not amended their exclusionist policy towards headscarved white-collar employees. Research findings confirm that in the Turkish banking sector, policies regarding the headscarf are still shaped by ideological corporate values. This study suggests that the appointment and promotion of female professionals in the Turkish banking sector are blocked by long-established stereotypes and prejudices, which stand in the way of inclusive practices supporting social equity, as well as diversity and the equality of women in the workplace.

scholarly journals The health of pregnant female migrants: analysis and possibilities of management

2019 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-30
Author(s):  
I. P. Artyukhov ◽  
S. Yu. Li-Gi-Ru ◽  
Natalya A. Gorbach ◽  
V. F. Kapitonov ◽  
V. B. Tskhay
Keyword(s):  
Comparison Group ◽  
Health Condition ◽  
Female Migrants ◽  
Similar Percentage ◽  
Pregnancy And Delivery ◽  
Health Support ◽  
Conditions Of Work ◽  
Female Migrant ◽  
Maternity Clinic ◽  
Work And Life

The analysis of the results of complex study of health ofpregnant female migrants demonstrated that their health condition is significantly worse than in comparison group. The most of female migrants suffered from complications during pregnancy and delivery. The percentage of newborns delivered by female migrants without pathologic manifestations was 1.3 times less in comparison with similar percentage in women from comparison group. The developed situation is in many ways is caused by more unfavorable conditions of work and life of female migrants. Besides, it was established that percentage of female migrants without observation in maternity clinic was 19.7 times higher the similar percentage of women from comparison group. The registration prior to 12 weeks ofpregnancy was marked only in every forth female migrant. The percentage of female migrants with biochemical screening applied was three times lower. The analysis of medical social problems ofpregnant female migrants permitted to develop proposals related to management of their health at the expense of amelioration of medical social care including number of organizational, social and medical activities. The experts determined priorities in realization of proposed activities. The developed activities can be used as a background of program on health support of pregnant women from families of migrants as am integral part ofprograms ofpopulation health support.

scholarly journals Engagement and Alienation among Manchester’s Unemployed

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Foster
Keyword(s):  
Job Market ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Work And Life ◽  
Unexpected Consequences

In this paper, I explore some potential ramifications of what I see as an emergent notion of engagement, which is being utilised across spheres of work and non-work in the UK today. I do this through an analysis of the experiences of the contemporary unemployed in Manchester. I shall argue that, though new discourses champion engaged attitudes towards work and life as preferable to a cynicism and disinterestedness fostered during foregoing modes of work, urges to prompt such an outlook have unexpected consequences. For Manchester’s unemployed population, institutions that aim at promoting their fuller engagement in work and its acquisition have led to unforeseen difficulties and now inform an intrusive disciplinary regime of jobseeking. As these state exhortations to seek work meet the current job market however, the will to engage in work is stunted. Ironically, then, where employability discourse aims to create engaged new working subjects, it contributes to an antithetical condition: that of a new yet familiar mode of alienation.

Preparing International Students for a Competitive Job Market

2016 ◽  
pp. 119-142
Author(s):  
Julie Miller ◽  
Becca Berkey ◽  
Francis Griffin
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Experiential Education ◽  
Cooperative Education ◽  
Career Services ◽  
Traditional Teaching ◽  
Domestic Students ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Fierce Competition ◽  
The University

Given the current climate of fierce competition for work, universities are working tirelessly to prepare students for their future professional endeavors. Forms of experiential education, including service-learning and cooperative education, are increasingly used to augment traditional teaching tools and on-campus career services, particularly for domestic students. This chapter describes a mixed methods study that explored professional and vocational challenges faced by international students at Northeastern University. The authors examined experiences of students who have engaged in one of two pathway programs at the university. One pathway program includes service-learning and the other pathway program does not. Data from students and staff illuminate the challenges international students face in obtaining and maintaining paid positions. Study findings are used to offer best practices for professional development staff in preparing international students for future career success.

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