Covid-19 and the future of work : Continuity and change in workplace precarity

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Barnes, Tom, Cotton, Dani and Kumar, Rakesh. (2022). Covid-19 and the future of work : Continuity and change in workplace precarity. In In Di Muzio, Tim and Dow, Matt (Ed.). Covid-19 and the global political economy : Crises in the 21st century pp. 153-168 Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/97810032504-32-13

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Authors	Barnes, Tom, Cotton, Dani and Kumar, Rakesh
Editors	Di Muzio, Tim and Dow, Matt
Abstract	[Extract] This chapter hinges the relationship between work and the Covid-19 Recession on the problem of increasing precarisation. This concept describes how the risks of economic survival and social reproduction in capitalist societies are tranfserred from the institutions of capital and the state onto workers and households (Kalleberg 2018; Standing 2014). It is closed related to the concept of precarity, which can be undersood as a general state of vulnerability, anxiety and anomie about the future (Millar 2017), and the sub-concepts of prevarious/insecure work, which refer to poor-quality jobs with common features like low pay, employment insecurity and poor social protection (Kalleberg 2018), It is also linked to the idea of the "precarious worker" as an individual whose social and economic background makes them more likely to depend upon these jobs (Campbell and Price 2016).
Page range	153-168
Year	2022
Book title	Covid-19 and the global political economy : Crises in the 21st century
Publisher	Routledge
Place of publication	London, United Kingdom
	New York, New York
Series	Ripe series in global political economy
ISBN	9781032168210
	9781032168197
	9781003250432
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.4324/97810032504-32-13
Publisher's version	License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled
Output status	Published
Online	26 Sep 2022
Print	2022
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Deposited	12 Jul 2023

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