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The Politics of Unpaid Labour: How the study of unpaid labour can help address inequality in precarious work

Valeria Pulignano, Markieta Domecka
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 feb 2025
The Politics of Unpaid Labour introduces the theory of the politics of unpaid labour to advance understanding of inequality within the context of precarious work. It understands unpaid labour as the time and effort people invest to undertake tasks which relate to the work implicitly or explicitly assigned to them, but for which they are not paid. The book establishes a crucial link between unpaid labour's political dimensions and its role in fuelling emerging forms of precarious work characterized by persistent inequalities in a context of labour market reforms, societal shifts, and technological changes, and it reveals how these seemingly disparate elements intertwine, connecting the intricate dynamics of the social system's micro-level components to larger macro-level structural patterns. Comparing working conditions in creative dance, residential care, and online freelancing in the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, and Poland, the book's empirical section is based on a wide range of biographical interviews and work diaries. In addition to introducing the major themes, theories, and thinkers of inequality and precarious work within the tradition of work, employment, and economic studies in sociology and the political economy, the theoretical section advances the current discussion on how unpaid labour contributes to inequality in precarious work in three ways. First, it establishes the characteristics differentiating employment from self-employment, and how these lead to a revised definition of unpaid labour. Second, it illustrates that unpaid labour is both shaped by class and serves to reproduce class interests, revealing ongoing changes in welfare, employment, and state institutional policies. Third, it considers the necessity to establish conditions within the labour market conducive to genuinely cultivating and honouring the diversity of human capabilities and actions within labour structures and promoting their manifestation.This is an open access title available under the terms of a [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International] licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198888130
ISBN-10: 0198888139
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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'By showing how class-based power dynamics underlie individuals' work-related motivations and meanings, this volume breaks new ground in providing a nuanced account of how unpaid labor perpetuates precarious work and inequality.'
'Unpaid labour, this book shows, may either increase employability or arrest workers in precarious jobs, depending on available resources. To make labour markets more equitable, public policy must address their unequal distribution.'
'This book is a revelation. It extends analysis of unpaid labour to offer a truly novel theorization of uncompensated work by both employees and freelancers. Along the way, it innovatively reformulates a broader theory of labour markets. Bravo!'
'This theoretically ground-breaking analysis reveals the significance of unpaid labour performed by those working 'freelance' and employees in a variety of service provision relationships. Drawing on detailed original research in three occupations, Valeria Pulignano, co-author and collaborators throw new light on the multiple inequities affecting already precarious forms of work.'
'The pressure to perform unpaid labour has hit self-employed workers with particular force. This magisterial book draws attention to the extent and the nature of this problem, showing how inequality and precarity are woven into the working lives of a substantial fraction of the labour force. The book will inspire debate among labour scholars in many disciplines for years to come.'
'This book breaks new ground in understanding precarious work, making two key contributions. Firstly, it links individual decisions to wider power structures, exposing how inequalities by social class are reinforced. Secondly, it reveals that platform work goes beyond mere transactions, as workers mimic idealized labour market behaviors without the security of a standard employment relationship. A must-read for anyone interested in understanding modern labour challenges.'
'Drawing on in-depth interviews and content analysis of diaries, these studies reveal how workers struggle with the image of the “ideal worker” at the same time as they often compromise their quality of life to perform work that they find meaningful and affirming of their dignity. Thus, this book powerfully illuminate conditions that produce and sustain gender and class inequality and alienation among workers.'
'Unpaid Labour has been a marginalized research theme in the sociology of work. Valeria Pulignano, co-author and contributors provide a timely and thought-provoking intervention that illuminates the nature and consequences of Unpaid Labour. Indeed, this book is a prime example of cutting-edge sociological research that offers a thick analysis of the many faces of Unpaid Labour and how they are embedded in different national institutions and socio-economic conditions. Highly recommended for Academics and Policy Makers alike.'

Notă biografică

Valeria Pulignano is Professor in Sociology of Work, Industrial Relations, and Labour Markets and Francqui Research Professor at KU Leuven. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at IRRU University of Warwick, LISER and Co-Researcher at CRIMT, and holder of the Jacques Leclerq Chair (UCL). Professor Pulignano has published extensively on topics related to comparative industrial relations, employment, labour markets and inequality, precarious work, working conditions, job quality, and collective workers' voice. She serves as Principal Coordinator of the RN17 Work, Employment, Industrial Relations within the European Sociological Association (ESA).Markieta Domecka is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Roehampton Business School and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Sociological Research at KU Leuven. She specializes in qualitative research methods and mix-method research in the fields of work and employment, unpaid labour, and inequality, viewed through the lens of intersectionality of class, gender, and ethnicity. Her work appears in Human Relations; Work, Employment and Society; Cambridge Journal of Economics; British Journal of Industrial Relations; International Labour Review, and Gender, Place & Culture.