Diversity and precarious work during socio-economic upheaval : exploring the missing link / edited by Elina Meliou, Brunel University London, Joana Vassilopoulou, Brunel University London, Mustafa F. Ozbilgin, Brunel University London.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Meliou, Elina, editor.

Vassilopoulou, Joana, editor.

Özbilgin, Mustafa, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Precarious employment.

Discrimination in employment.

Diversity in the workplace.

Personnel management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 309 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

List of figures

List of contributors

1. Introduction

2. Pandemic precarities and engendered biopolitics within the neoliberal university

3. LGBQT+ individuals and precarious work

4. Age, gender, and precarity: the experience of late career self-employment

5. How the (in)ability of using one's disability strategically reinforces inequality and precariousness amongst disabled workers: the case of France

6. Classed and gendered experiences of precarity in dirty work

7. Precarity and diversity: the intersectional case of female Christian janitorial workers

8. Precarious work in the gig economy: diversity, race and indigeneity lenses

9. Refugees' vulnerability towards precarious work: an intersectionality perspective

10. Trapped in precarious work: the case of Syrian refugee workers in Turkey

11. How precarity is threaded into migration rules: the cases of the UK, Germany, and Australia

12. Culture, precarity, and dignity

13. Transforming humanitarianism: precarities at work in the new activist volunteer sector

14. Artificial intelligence, the gig economy, and precarity

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Feb 2024).

ISBN:

9781108934367

1108934366

9781108933070

1108933076

9781108935128

1108935125