An unprecedented occupational health study on takeaway delivery workers in France reveals shocking working conditions amid Europe-wide debate on their entitlement to standard employee rights.
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Rejecting precarious work signals dissatisfaction with a labour market where wage employment rarely offers security or social mobility.
Tourism is often blamed for precarious work, but governments play a huge part in ensuring job quality.
Many young Mexican men that are working in precarious conditions are drawn into the fold of drug cartels.
Global climates are changing and the world is rapidly warming. Canada’s labour laws must keep pace with the rate of change to protect workers.
Video game companies often time the release of their most popular titles for the holiday season. Now is the time to reflect on the political economy of video games and which games we buy.
The work environment is a social determinant of health. However, work has been underused as a lever to address health inequalities.
Paid domestic work has a low status in South Africa. The labour of domestic workers is often undervalued and unrecognised.
Workers’ power is being recast as precarious workers in Africa experiment with new ways of organising in the digital age
Reality TV workers may not need their own union but they could benefit from joining existing unions serving the creative industries.
Stuff cuts are just the most visible aspect of critical problems within the modern university, as a new survey of academic workers reveals.
Since 2011, I’ve worked in more than 20 precarious workplaces in hospitality, manufacturing and logistics – and I have only seen a union once.
The writers strike lays bare all the ills of working on one of the lowest rungs of the entertainment industry.
Britain is now desperately short of workers in some sectors. Yet our interviews with 100 women aged 50 and over show how hard it is for them to find secure employment
Deliveroo says it has been unable to achieve a sustainable position in the Australian market.
Regularization programs that help refugees and migrants become permanent residents have tremendous positive outcomes for both migrants and society.
Reports of big university budget surpluses appear to undermine calls for their federal funding to increase. But a closer look at how the surpluses were achieved reveals why change is needed.
Lifting wages will be a priority for the Albanese government to ease the cost of living. But the unions and the Greens are likely to push for more changes to tackle problems with the Fair Work system.
The problem of insecure employment for academics came to a head during the pandemic. The neglect of this issue is eroding our intellectual capital along with education and employment opportunities.
A recent study highlights the precarious world of rideshare and delivery drivers during the pandemic, and their struggle to be heard as non-unionised contractors.
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Senior Lecturer, Management and Organisations, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer, Management and Organisations, UWA Business School, The University of Western Australia
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Associate professor, University of Sydney
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Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow at the Centre for Future Work, Melbourne; and Professor Emeritus, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Deputy Dean of Research, RMIT University
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, Brock University
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Associate professor, University of Johannesburg
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Associate Professor, Communication, University of Toronto
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Professor of Health Policy and Management, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor, Labour studies, Brock University
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Professor of Epidemiology (Emeritis), University of Toronto
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Catedrático de Empresa y Turismo Digital, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
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Emergency physician and Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto
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Lecturer, School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University
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Senior Associate, Grattan Institute