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- Dictionaryprecarious/prɪˈkɛːrɪəs/
adjective
- 1. not securely held or in position; dangerously likely to fall or collapse: "a precarious ladder"
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Jun 24, 2024 · There is no clear and well-established definition of precarious employment [ 21, 22 ], and it is regarded as a multidimensional phenomenon [ 13, 23 ]. The characteristic of precarious employment is the overall experience of uncertainty, which affects people’s emotional, psychological, and social well-being at work and outside of work [ 24 ].
5 days ago · This article presents the rationale and a new critical framework for precarity, which reflects a psychosocial concept that links structural inequities with experiences of alienation, anomie, and uncertainty. Emerging from multiple disciplines, including anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, political science, and psychology, the concept of precarity provides a conceptual scaffolding for understanding the complex causes of precarious life circumstances while also seeking to identify how ...
17 hours ago · Michigan’s migrant farmworkers are the backbone of the country’s second-most diverse agricultural economy. Social and labor protections for them fall short.
1 day ago · Pay equity matters because it is a glaring injustice and subjects millions of women and families to lives of entrenched poverty and opportunity gaps. At the current rate, we risk leaving more than 340 million women and girls in abject poverty by 2030, and an alarming 4 per cent could grapple with extreme food insecurity by that year.
5 hours ago · Traineeships and other aspirational work define the next generation’s increasingly fragmented and somewhat precarious realities. Young workers will judge social Europe’s achievements on the quest for quality traineeships, which could propel future initiatives for decent youth employment.
Jul 3, 2024 · The second contribution arises from the insights developed through studying the working lives and experiences of precarious workers longitudinally rather than in a single, snapshot fashion. A third contribution centres on how precarious workers felt they were treated by others during both the two phases of the study.
Jun 22, 2024 · Spatial practices of care and repair can offer insights into displacement practices of self-reliance, survival, and endurance. Autoconstruction, occupation, squatting, and encroachment can turn the uninhabitable into an inhabitable place. Precarious communities can mobilise care and repair for emancipatory ends.
