Existing research on the rise of precarious forms of employment has paid little attention to gender and diversity challenges. Yet precarious work has damaging effects for vulnerable demographics, with women, ethnic minorities and people with disabilities more considerably affected. This volume unpacks this research and offers insights into the role of organizations in fostering inclusive change. It draws an awareness of precarious work and diversity in organizations in three ways: 1. Uncovers and documents the variety of issues facing vulnerable demographic groups at work. 2. Promotes greater scholarship on the link between precarious work and diversity during economic and social upheaval. 3. Develops a research program and agenda that sheds light into new and important aspects of precarious work and diversity issues. A group of international scholars come together to discuss ways to address these challenges and offer a way forward for the future.
Most studies of precarity exclude categories of diversity, such as gender, ethnicity, age, disability and sexuality. This volume explores precarity and diversity together and will appeal to scholars in human resource management, diversity management, organizational behaviour and theory, the sociology of work, gender studies and public relations.
Recenzijas
'A structural shift in the economy saw the rise of precarious employment, which has been heightened by several disruptions, including the financial crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence in workplaces. This important collection of works highlights these disruptions and advances our understanding of how they affect individuals with marginalised identities and society's most vulnerable.' Eddy Ng, Smith Professor of Equity and Inclusion in Business, Queen's University, Canada, and Editor-in-Chief of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal
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Explores how communities from disadvantaged backgrounds experience precarity more severely than others in social and economic settings.
1. Introduction Elina Meliou, Joana Vassilopoulou and Mustafa F.
Ozbilgin;
2. Pandemic precarities and gendered biopolitics within the
neo-liberal university Steve Vincent, Ana Lopes, Nosheen Jawaid Khan, Andrew
Kozhevnikov and Julie Monroe;
3. LGBTQ+ individuals and precarious work Oscar
Holmes IV, Erhan Aydin, Richard Greggory Johnson III and Emir Ozeren;
4. Age,
gender and precarity: the experience of late career self-employment Elina
Meliou and Oliver Mallett;
5. How the (in)ability of using one's disability
strategically reinforces inequality and precariousness amongst disabled
workers: the case of France Sarah Richard and Sophie Hennekam;
6. Classed and
gendered experiences of precarity in dirty work Rachel Morgan, Annilee Game
and Natalia Slutskaya;
7. Precarity and diversity: the intersectional case of
female Christian janitorial workers Mariam Mohsin and Jawad Syed;
8.
Precarious work in the gig economy: diversity, race and indigeneity lenses
Kurt April;
9. Refugees' vulnerability towards precarious work: an
intersectionality perspective Lena Knappert, Brigitte Kroon, Angela Kornau
and Bassant Abdelmageed;
10. Trapped in precarious work: the case of Syrian
refugee workers in Turkey Deniz Palalar Alkan, Rifat Kamasak, Esin Sayin and
Joana Vassilopoulou;
11. How precarity is threaded into migration rules: the
case of the UK, Germany and Australia Dimitria Groutsis, Shireen Kanji and
Joana Vassilopoulou;
12. Culture, precarity and dignity Ramaswami Mahalingam;
13. Transforming humanitarianism: precarities at work in the new activist
volunteer sector Sue Clayton;
14. Artificial intelligence, gig economy and
precarity Mustafa F. Özbilgin, Nur Gundogdu and Jan Akalin.
Elina Meliou is Professor of Work and Organization Studies at Brunel University London. Joana Vassilopoulou is Associate Professor at Brunel University London. Mustafa F. Özbilgin is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Brunel University London.
