The Nature and Dimensions of Precarious Employment in Australia

Burgess, John; Campbell, Iain

doi:10.1080/10301763.1998.10669175

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“…It is the combination of both casual and part-time positions that determines what are termed precarious working conditions (Burgess & Campbell 1998;Kalleberg 2009). Employment status (managerial and non-managerial): Often the benefits that may accrue from flexible work arrangements and high discretion roles remain in the domain managerial and professional employees and are not readily available to non-managerial staff.…”

Section: Other Employment Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Work and social well-being: the impact of employment conditions on quality of life

Boreham

Povey

Tomaszewski

2015

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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Acknowledgments:This study was funded by an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant (LP0775040), "The development and application of a conceptual and statistical framework for the measurement of nonmarket factors affecting social inequality and social wellbeing". The study was also supported by the Queensland Public Sector Union. Neither the Australian Research Council nor the Queensland Public Sector Union were involved in decision-making about the research and publication process. AbstractThis paper aims to extend our understanding of the impact of management practices and employment conditions in the contemporary workplace on the broader social realm. The study provides an analytic account of how these employment conditions impact on the social wellbeing of a representative sample of individuals and households. We assess the propensity of working arrangements that are manifested in various high performance work systems either to enhance or to diminish quality of life.The paper indicates that certain management practices and employment conditions have impacts that extend beyond the workplace and influence the broader wellbeing of individuals and families. KeywordsSocial wellbeing, employment conditions, high performance management practices, job security; quality of life 2

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Section: Other Employment Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Work and social well-being: the impact of employment conditions on quality of life

Boreham

Povey

Tomaszewski

2015

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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“…Because of this, many researchers regard casual employment as being a negative type, or a 'substandard' form of employment, emphasising the fact that the majority of these jobs are characterised by low pay, limited opportunities for career progression, lack of provision for training, low levels of union representation, reduction in employee influence over decision making in the workplace, increase in insecurity regarding the future of jobs, and diminished employee entitlements, such as lack of parental leave entitlements for long-term casuals (e.g. Burgess & Campbell, 1998a;ACIRRT, 1999;Watts, 2001;Campbell & Burgess, 2001).…”

Section: Upskilling In Employment Growth and Hours Workedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Labour market reform and potential inequality of outcomes: The Australian story

Esposto

2013

SAJEMS

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The global knowledge economy has transformed the world of work in the last four decades. Over the last 40 years the Australian economy underwent major structural change a phenomenon that was initiated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. This paper discusses and analyses institutional change characterised by the decentralisation of collective bargaining structures that began in the early 1980s. The paper analyses the impact of these reforms by providing a simple analysis of job creation over a thirty year period. The paper concludes that institutional labour market change can at times produce negative welfare outcomes, particularly as it relates to employment creation. The impact of these effects is increasing inequality of earnings in the labour force.

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“…Some critics have advocated a broader framing that reaches beyond the immediacy of the employer-employee contractual relation. These map precariousness by linking employment insecurity and uncertainty with measures of income insecurity, working-time insecurity, representational insecurity and social benefits and entitlements and the broader social forces that define the employment experience (Burgess/Campbell 1998;Vosko 2010). The employment histories of migrant domestic workers conform with this narrative, and, as a large body of research has documented, migrant workers more generally are particularly susceptible to being locked into categories of work that are characterised by these features.…”

Section: Precariousness Proletarianisation and The Formal Subsumptiomentioning

confidence: 99%

Migrant Domestic Work: From Precarious to Precarisation

Rosewarne¹

2014

Journal Für Entwicklungspolitik

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The Nature and Dimensions of Precarious Employment in Australia

Cited by 109 publications

References 14 publications

Work and social well-being: the impact of employment conditions on quality of life

Work and social well-being: the impact of employment conditions on quality of life

Labour market reform and potential inequality of outcomes: The Australian story

Migrant Domestic Work: From Precarious to Precarisation

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