Labour market, work and employment segregation by race

2019 ◽  
pp. 375-397
Author(s):  
Steve Jefferys
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Market Work ◽  
Work And Employment

scholarly journals Problematising the interplay between employment relations, migration and mobility

2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 580-593 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny K. Rodriguez ◽  
Lesley Mearns
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
Work Experiences ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Work And Employment

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to introduce the special issue by problematising labour agency, precariousness, and labour fragmentation as defining themes of the interplay between employment relations, migration and mobility.Design/methodology/approachDrawing from discussions about the impact of globalisation on changes in features of work and employment, and bringing together theory and research on employment relations and labour migration, the paper discusses the relational spatial and temporal nature of agency, the diverse features of worker experiences of precariousness, and the resulting fragmentation in labour solidarity.FindingsLabour agency, precariousness and labour fragmentation intersect to create the axis of dynamics of hardship and abuse that dominate work experiences of migrant workers in the global labour market. Globalisation has a pervasive impact in articulating and perpetuating systemic processes of closure, entrapment and containment, which are triggered by migration and legitimised by dynamics of employment relations.Originality/valueThe paper contributes to current discussions about the interplay between migration, mobility and employment relations and sets out future directions of research to enhance our understanding of the role of employment relations to perpetuate, legitimise and normalise dynamics of globalisation that promote the migrant division of labour and create contradictory labour demands and displacements in the global labour market.

New Forms of Work and Employment in an `Old Industrial Region'? The Offshore Construction Industry in the North East of England

1994 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 531-552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy Cumbers
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
The Past ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Local Labour ◽  
New Forms Of Work ◽  
Work And Employment

This paper examines the nature of the new forms of work and employment brought to the North East of England by the development of offshore construction activities, serving the North Sea's oil and gas industries in the period since the early 1970s. In particular, it assesses the extent to which these activities differ from traditional forms of work and employment organisation within the region. The results of this analysis suggest the need to interpret contemporary patterns of restructuring, both in a particular local labour market context and more generally, as part of an on-going evolutionary process, rather than as a decisive break (or shift) from the past.

scholarly journals All precarious? Institutional change and turning points in labour market trajectories in Spain

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 408-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martí López Andreu
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Career Paths ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Employment Protection ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Work And Employment

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the effects of changes in employment regulation in Spain on individual labour market trajectories. It is well known that the Spanish labour market has been strongly hit by the 2007 recession. Furthermore, after 2010 and in the benchmark of “austerity”, several reforms were implemented to further flexibilise employment regulation. At the same time, public sector budgets suffered severe cutbacks, that impacted working conditions and prospects of public sector workers. These reforms were implemented by different governments and substantially changed previous existing patterns of employment. This paper explains how these reforms have reinforced previous existing trends towards greater flexibility and weaker employment protection and how they lead to a shift in the position of work in society. Design/methodology/approach The emerging patterns that these changes provoked are illustrated thorough data from narrative biographies of workers affected by a job loss or a downgrading of working conditions. The workers of the sample had relatively stable positions and careers and were affected by changes that substantially modified their paths. Findings The paper shows how reforms have expanded work and employment insecurities and have broken career paths. It demonstrates how the reforms have weakened the position of work and organised labour in society and how, when institutional supports are jeopardised, the capacity to plan and act is harassed by the traditional social inequalities. Originality/value The paper enhances the knowledge about the impact of institutional changes by analysing their effects in individual working lives by means of narrative biographies.

scholarly journals THE IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION ON THE SITUATION AND IMAGE OF UNIFORMED SERVICES AS EMPLOYERS ON THE POLISH LABOUR MARKET

2020 ◽  
pp. 57-69
Author(s):  
DOROTA KUREK
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Full Understanding ◽  
Market Requirements ◽  
Huge Impact ◽  
Empirical Tests ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Work And Employment

The progressing globalization process is usually considered in economic, economic, socio-cultural, technical, political, demographic, anthropological and migration aspects. However, only an interdisciplinary approach to globalization allows for its full understanding and showing the real impact on i.a. the situation on the labour market. The indicated dimensions correspond directly to the labour market and the changes that take place on it. Globalization has a huge impact on work and employment, including labour market requirements, as well as changes in the perception of work, the value of work and young people›s approach to it. Factors intensifying globalization processes exert different impact on the image of an organisation as an employer, making some organisations more or less desired employers. The uniformed services are an important employer in Poland, due to the number of employees reaching over 330,000 people. The aim of this article is to show the influence of particular dimensions of globalization on the situation of uniformed services in Poland as employers, as well as on the image of these services. The author of the article analysed only selected uniformed services. This article was prepared, among others, on the basis of o the results of empirical tests carried out in 2019 using the diagnostic survey method.

scholarly journals Labour Market Change and the Long-term Sustainability of New Zealand Superannuation

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Callister ◽  
Dennis Rose
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Market Work ◽  
Policy Options ◽  
Market Change ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
Labour Market Change

Research on the long-term sustainability of New Zealand Superannuation has identified three main policy options; raising the age of eligibility, lowering pension rates relative to the average age, and the targeting of the entitlement. Our paper examines the potential impact of labour market changes on superannuation, under a range of long-term scenarios. The balance between market and non-market work and leisure is certain to be significantly affected by the demands of population ageing. Female participation rates seem likely to rise as do those of older persons. The long-term historical decline in male participation seems unlikely to continue over the next fifty years. Overall, anticipation in paid work be persons aged 25-70 will tend to increase. However, our scenarios suggest that no prospective pattern of labour market change is likely, of itself, to solve New Zealand's emerging superannuation problem. All three policy options identified in previous research need to be kept under review as possible responses to emergent fiscal pressures.

scholarly journals Living differently? A feminist-Bourdieusian analysis of the transformative power of basic income

2021 ◽  
pp. 003802612110346
Author(s):  
Hanna Ketterer
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Basic Income ◽  
Direct Link ◽  
Transformative Power ◽  
Work And Employment

This article examines the idea that basic income has transformative power. It does so by scrutinising Erik O. Wright’s theory of transformation from a feminist-Bourdieusian perspective. Rather than assuming a direct link between basic income and actors’ turning away from the capitalist labour market, this is a perspective that emphasises conditions of possibilities for practices beyond paid work and employment. To explore actors’ practices, I analyse how basic income would interact with both the objectified social structures and incorporated dispositions – above all, with actors’ dominant disposition to paid work. I argue that for basic income to transform capitalism, a transformation of the habitus is needed.

scholarly journals Automation, AI and the Future of Work in India

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Hammer ◽  
Suparna Karmakar
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Informal Economy ◽  
State Policy ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
National Strategy ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Future Of Work ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Work And Employment

PurposeThis research contributes to current debates on automation and the future of work, a much-hyped but under researched area, in emerging economies through a particular focus on India. It assesses the national strategy on artificial intelligence and explores the impact of automation on the Indian labour market, work and employment to inform policy.Design/methodology/approachThe article critically assesses the National Strategy on AI, promulgated by NITI Aayog (a national policy think tank), supported by the government of India and top industry associations, through a sectoral analysis. The key dimensions of the national strategy are examined against scholarship on the political economy of work in India to better understand the possible impact of automation on work.FindingsThe study shows that technology is not free from the wider dynamics that surround the world of work. The adoption of new technologies is likely to occur in niches in the manufacturing and services sectors, while its impact on employment and the labour market more broadly, and in addressing societal inequalities will be limited. The national strategy, however, does not take into account the nature of capital accumulation and structural inequalities that stem from a large informal economy and surplus labour context with limited upskilling opportunities. This raises doubts about the effectiveness of the current policy.Research limitations/implicationsThe critical assessment of new technologies and work has two implications: first, it underscores the need for situated analyses of social and material relations of work in formulating and assessing strategies and policies; second, it highlights the necessity of qualitative workplace studies that examine the relationship between technology and the future of work.Practical implicationsThe article assesses an influential state policy in a key aspect of future of work–automation.Social implicationsThe policy assessed in this study would have significant social and economic outcomes for labour, work and employment in India. The study highlights the limitations of the state policy in addressing key labour market dimensions and work and employment relations in its formulation and implementation.Originality/valueThis study is the first to examine the impact of automation on work and employment in India. It provides a critical intervention in current debates on future of work from the point of view of an important emerging economy defined by labour surplus and a large informal economy.

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