The pragmatics of precarious work : security and vulnerability in the pandemic economy

• Main Author: Jankowski, Krzysztof Z. (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Routledge, 2026.
• Series: Routledge advances in sociology
• Subjects: Precarious employment > England > London > History > 21st century.; Job security > England > London > History > 21st century.; Job hunting > England > London > History > 21st century.; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023 > Influence.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781003516767; 1003516769; 9781040415016; 1040415016; 9781040414965; 1040414966; 1032851422; 9781032851426
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 pages).
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Drawing on data collected in London's precarious labour market during the COVID- 19 pandemic, this book explores the pragmatic actions of precarious work that produce simultaneous security and vulnerability.The analysis spans the full scope of precarious working: procedures of job searching and applying, conducting duties and becoming acclimatised to the workplace, and exercises of chaining precarious jobs together or planning an exit into permanent and full- time work. These are brought into discussion to show how the flexibility of job searching interacts with the confinement of workplace activity.This book is a valuable contribution for scholars and students in the fields of sociology of work, and of social stratification, that has important implications for our understanding of employment in late modernity. Its ethnographic data regarding the practicalities of precarious work is highly relevant to social work, social policy, management and business. The application of that data to debates over the nature of capitalism is relevant to theoreticians across the social sciences including sociology, geography, anthropology and organizational studies.