Precariousness and Precarious Work: A Detailed Analysis of Research

This report examines precarious work, a term used to describe non-standard employment that is unprotected, insecure, and often poorly paid, particularly in Australia. It addresses the arguments surrounding the research of precariousness, focusing on the poor quality of jobs and the uncertainty in standard employment. The report highlights various dimensions of precarious work including temporal (employment continuity), organizational (lack of worker control), economic (low pay), and social (lack of protection and social security benefits). It also discusses the experiences of migrant workers and the impact of debt and fluctuating work hours. References to relevant research papers are included to support the analysis. The report explores the challenges and implications of precarious work across different aspects of the employment landscape.

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Precariousness and Precarious work
Name of the Student
Name of the University
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Response to question 1:
Precarious work is referred to as a term which is utilized by the globalization critics for
defining non-standard employment which unprotected, insecure, could not support a single
household and is poorly paid. Employment precariousness has become one of the major issues
among the media of Australia (Campbell and Burgess 2018). The arguments of researching
precariousness of employment comprises of several problems related with poor quality of job
along with presence of doubts in standard or permanent levels of work.
The development regarding the research from doubtful work to doubtful workers is in
itself a natural development. The other argument forms the presence of precariousness in the
lives of the workers is related with both the extent as well as the nature of the existing
precariousness in their respective jobs. On the other hand, both these factors are very closely
connected with one another but still is contingent in nature. In addition to this, in accordance
with the discussion of several migrant workers who are temporary, numerous precariousness
experiences might range on the basis of the method by which the migrant workers are located
with respect to the social relations.
Several precariousness experiences could be amplified by higher levels of debts along
with higher levels of higher expenses of living. Apart from this, payment of receding hours have
been focused on which took place due to the punishments which were provided by the
managers after the refusal of the shift timings by the employees (Campbell and Price 2016).
This did not occur due to the fluctuating demands. Injury or underpayment reported by the
employees also contributed to the refusal of the shift timings by the employees.
Response to question 2:
Several dimensions of the precarious work comprises of temporal, social, economic and
organizational dimensions. Temporal dimension refers towards low levels of certainty on the
procedure of employment continuity. The organizational dimension on the other hand comprises
of lack of number of workers along with both collective and individual controls on the conditions
of working, intensity of work, safety, health, and pay along with shifts and time of working. Next
comes the economic dimension where it directly indicates towards poor levels of payment of the
employees.

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This directly indicated towards insufficient amount of progression of both salary and pay
as well. The last dimension of precarious work forms the social dimension which constitutes of
collective, customary or legal protection in opposition to discrimination, unfair method of
dismissal along with several kinds of working practices which are totally unacceptable (Beer, et
al. 2016). This dimension also comprises of social protection which simply indicates towards the
accessibility of various kinds of benefits of social security which is associated with accidents,
insurance of unemployment along with health.
On the basis of these four above mentioned dimensions of precarious work along with its
numerous dimensions, precarious work could be interpreted as a range of employment forms
like that of underemployment, quasi self-employment etc. (Mayhew 2018). established under
normative formats in several aspects results from imbalanced distribution and within the workers
of numerous risks and insecurities linked with the economic life to the labor market.

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References
Beer, A., Bentley, R., Baker, E., Mason, K., Mallett, S., Kavanagh, A. and LaMontagne, T.,
2016. Neoliberalism, economic restructuring and policy change: Precarious housing and
precarious employment in Australia. Urban studies, 53(8), pp.1542-1558.
Campbell, I. and Burgess, J., 2018. Patchy progress? Two decades of research on
precariousness and precarious work in Australia. Labour & Industry: a journal of the social and
economic relations of work, 28(1), pp.48-67.
Campbell, I. and Price, R., 2016. Precarious work and precarious workers: Towards an
improved conceptualisation. The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 27(3), pp.314-332.
Mayhew, C., 2018. Exploration of the links between workplace stress and precarious
employment. Work Stress: Studies of the Context, Content and Outcomes of Stress: A Book of
Readings.