Assembling the Psycurity Accord in Response to the Early COVID-19 Outbreak in Aotearoa New Zealand

Hopner, Veronica; Hodgetts, Darrin; Carr, Stuart C.; Nelson, Nick; Chamberlain, Kerry; Ball, Rhys

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“…In the meantime, a focused wage reform alone may not be enough to eradicate (working) poverty. A wider approach could be required, in which a whole suite of policies, from wages to housing, are reset as part of a wider assemblage ( Hopner et al, 2021 ). COVID-19 has not destroyed infrastructure and installed production capacity, in fact it is disorganizing production chains and changing many aspects of the labor market, as well as aggravating social and economic problems, especially for low-income workers.…”

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Pandemic or Not, Worker Subjective Wellbeing Pivots About the Living Wage Point: A Replication, Extension, and Policy Challenge in Aotearoa New Zealand

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Recent pre-pandemic research suggests that living wages can be pivotal for enhancing employee attitudes and subjective wellbeing. This article explores whether or not the present COVID-19 pandemic is impacting pivotal links between living wages and employee attitudes and subjective wellbeing, with replication indicating robustness. Twin cohorts each of 1,000 low-waged workers across New Zealand (NZ), one pre- (2018), and one present-pandemic (2020) were sample surveyed on hourly wage, job attitudes, and subjective wellbeing as linked to changes in the world of work associated with the pandemic (e.g., job security, stress, anxiety, depression, and holistic wellbeing). Using locally estimated scatter-point smoothing, job attitudes and subjective wellbeing scores tended to pivot upward at the living wage level in NZ. These findings replicate earlier findings and extend these into considering subjective wellbeing in the context of a crisis for employee livelihoods and lives more generally. Convergence across multiple measures, constructs, and contexts, suggests the positive impacts of living wages are durable. We draw inspiration from systems dynamics to argue that the present government policy of raising legal minimum wages (as NZ has done) may not protect subjective wellbeing until wages cross the living wage Rubicon. Future research should address this challenge.

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Pandemic or Not, Worker Subjective Wellbeing Pivots About the Living Wage Point: A Replication, Extension, and Policy Challenge in Aotearoa New Zealand

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“…Given that dimensions of HS are dynamic, processual, and inter-connected, there is merit in conceptualizing human security, at least provisionally from the vantage point of Assemblage Theory (Hopner et al, 2021). Assemblage Theory was introduced by Deleuze and Guattari to make sense of the processes via which any whole or entity from molecules to natural organisms, species and ecosystems take form.…”

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“…HSP needs to continue to produce knowledge and practices that helps persons and groups secure themselves. Such knowledge production can involve documenting the unfolding of HS situations such as the present pandemic (Hopner, et al, 2021). It can also involve looking at past situations of insecurity to extrapolate insights that enable us to anticipate and mitigate related events in the future.…”

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“…The rhetorical styles adopted by different countries’ leaders in different nations also reflected tremendous variances in policy used to respond to the pandemic and associated effectiveness. The old formula of building national solidarity was most effective in pandemic prevention (Hopner et al, 2021; Vignoles et al, 2021), but given existing cleavages and differential impacts of the pandemic, this was easier said than done in many jurisdictions (Chan et al, 2021).…”

Section: Human Security As a Nexus Of Dynamic Assemblagesmentioning

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Human Security Psychology: A Linking Construct for an Eclectic Discipline

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Since its inception as a modern and evolving discipline, psychology has been concerned with issues of human security. This think piece offers an initial conceptualisation of human security as a broad security concept that encompasses a range of interrelated dimensions that have been responded to by different sub-disciplinary domains within psychology. We advance an argument for a human security psychology as a connecting focal point for general psychology that enables us to bring knowledge from across our eclectic discipline into further dialogue. This is a necessary step in understanding better the state of current thinking on the psychology of security and as a basis for informing further theory, research and practice efforts to address issues of human (in)security. This initial effort is informed by Assemblage Theory, which offers a dynamic and contextually rich perspective on people as agentive beings entangled within evolving natural and social formations that can foster or undermine their experiences of [in]security. The article is completed with a brief agenda for advancing human security psychology.

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“…These campaigns have gained considerable momentum with the 2008 global financial crisis and subsequent recession in many that was exacerbated by poverty generating austerity responses in many countries. The current COVID-19 pandemic has also highlighted the importance of "essential" low-paid workers and the in-work poverty they experience (Hopner et al, 2021).…”

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Deliberating Upon the Living Wage to Alleviate In-Work Poverty: A Rhetorical Inquiry Into Key Stakeholder Accounts

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Most developed nations have a statutory minimum wage set at levels insufficient to alleviate poverty. Increased calls for a living wage have generated considerable public controversy. This article draws on 25 interviews and four focus groups with employers, low-pay industry representatives, representatives of chambers of commerce, pay consultants, and unions. The core focus is on how participants use prominent narrative tropes for the living wage and against the living wage to argue their respective perspectives. We also document how both affirmative and negative tropes are often combined by participants to craft their own rhetorical positions on the issue.

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Assembling the Psycurity Accord in Response to the Early COVID-19 Outbreak in Aotearoa New Zealand

Cited by 4 publications

References 36 publications

Pandemic or Not, Worker Subjective Wellbeing Pivots About the Living Wage Point: A Replication, Extension, and Policy Challenge in Aotearoa New Zealand

Pandemic or Not, Worker Subjective Wellbeing Pivots About the Living Wage Point: A Replication, Extension, and Policy Challenge in Aotearoa New Zealand

Human Security Psychology: A Linking Construct for an Eclectic Discipline

Deliberating Upon the Living Wage to Alleviate In-Work Poverty: A Rhetorical Inquiry Into Key Stakeholder Accounts

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