Diversity and Precarious Work During Socio-Economic Upheaval

Exploring the Missing Link

Elina Meliou, Joana Vassilopoulou, Mustafa F. Ozbilgin

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2024
• Topic: Business
• eBook ISBN:
  9781108935128
• Subtopic: Human Resource Management
• Index: Business

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Contributors
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Pandemic Precarities and Gendered Biopolitics within the Neoliberal University
• 3 LGBTQ+ 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