This comprehensive Handbook provides an accessible overview of precarious employment, exploring how insecure, low-paid and unstable forms of work shape the lives, health and identities of workers across the globe.
With international and interdisciplinary contributions, the chapters demonstrate the prevalence of such work, highlighting its presence not only within informal sectors of the Global South but also within advanced economies worldwide. Examining both structural forces and lived experiences, it covers key issues such as job insecurity, mental well-being, unstable and informal work, and in-work poverty, as well as institutional responses and the impact of the COVID-19 crisis. This timely volume underscores the urgent need for fairer and more sustainable labour markets, emphasizing the role of organizations, institutions and collective action in fostering sustainable livelihoods.
This collection is a valuable resource for scholars and students of human resource management, organizational behaviour, sociology of work, labour studies, economics and public policy. With a focus on institutional interventions, policy implications and the role of the state, policy makers and public sector professionals will greatly benefit from the evidence-based insights.
This comprehensive Handbook provides an accessible overview of precarious employment, exploring how insecure, low-paid and unstable forms of work shape the lives, health and identities of workers across the globe. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.
Contents
1 Introduction: Meaning and trends in precarious work 1
Maria Hudson and Beatrice Piccoli
PART I SHIFTING LANDSCAPES OF PRECARIOUS WORK
2 Temporary agency working: New dynamics, same precarities? 16
Chris Forde and Gary Slater
3 Precarious work in the gig economy 31
Guanyu Zhang and Lixin Jiang
4 A crisis within a crisis: Forms of precarity amongst self-employed live
performers in the wake of Covid-19 50
Philip Hancock and Melissa Tyler
5 Labour mobility and socio-ecological precarity 68
Dina Bolokan
6 Precarious life-worlds and unpaid labour: Expanding research on
precarious work at the interface between work and home 83
Valeria Pulignano and Glenn Morgan
7 Precarious pathways to foodbank use in the UK 98
Maria Hudson
PART II CHANGING INSTITUTIONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL
CONTEXTS OF PRECARIOUS WORK
8 Divisions of labour: Making markets for exploitable workers 117
Nik Theodore
9 Autonomy, insecurity, community: Understanding affect in freelance work
133
Casper Hoedemaekers
10 Precarity and workers strategies in the (post-)pandemic crisis: The case
of
Poland 150
Dominika Polkowska and Adam Mrozowicki
11 Precarious work in UK hospitality: The multidimensional nature of
precarization and the role of the state during Covid-19 166
Gabriella Alberti, Charles Umney and Kiril Pasevin
PART III NEW INSECURITIES: THE WORKER CONSEQUENCES OF
PRECARIOUSNESS
12 Precarious work and mental health: Evidence, theory, and future directions
185
Blake A. Allan
13 On the implications of precarious work for identity, careers, and society
199
Eva Selenko, Peter Creed, Katharina Klug, and Michelle Hood
14 Intersecting economic stressors: Do they confer increased vulnerability
or
greater resilience for precarious workers? 216
Tahira M. Probst, Maike E. Debus, Jasmina Tomas, Hyun Jung Lee,
Andrea Bazzoli and Melissa Jenkins
15 Insecure in three ways: On the possible impact of COVID-19 on job and
occupation insecurity 237
Hans De Witte, Anahí Van Hootegem and Lara Roll
16 Understanding job insecurity in formal and informal work 248
Mindy Shoss and Mahima Saxena
17 Labour market attachment and implications for precarious work: A
systematic literature review 264
Sophie Cuinen, Nele De Cuyper, Anneleen Forrier and Ilke Grosemans
PART IV RESPONSES TO PRECARIOUS WORK AND STRUCTURAL
INEQUALITIES
18 Regulating or reproducing precarious work? Analysing the regulation of
temporary employment services in South Africa 282
Lynford Dor and Carin Runciman
19 Precaritization, financial security and social class among older workers
after job loss 299
Tom Barnes and Sally Weller
20 Making work pay? The intersections of the welfare system and precarious
work in the UK 314
Mathew Johnson
21 Precarious work and the basic income 331
Ryszard J. Koziel, Joachim Hüffmeier, Hannes Zacher and
Cort W. Rudolph
PART V REFLECTIONS ON PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE
22 The future of precarious work: Drawing out lessons from the chapters 354
Maria Hudson and Beatrice Piccoli
Edited by Maria Hudson, Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management, and Beatrice Piccoli, Lecturer in Human Resource Management, Essex Business School, University of Essex, UK
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