Pub Date : 2023-05-07DOI: 10.1080/10301763.2023.2209923
Annica Lau, May Bratby
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/10301763.2023.2209922
K. Ravenswood, Fiona Hurd, Amber Nicholson, Andrea Fromm, Kirsty McCully, Melissa Woolley, Tanya Ewertowska
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the way in which COVID-19 has exacerbated the poor work conditions within community support work in Aotearoa-New Zealand. It examines the invisibility of care work in New Zealand during the COVID-19 pandemic, in terms of Government policy and communication, societal recognition of care work, and the spatially hidden nature of the work. It does so within the of gender norms in the socio-cultural, socio-spatial and socio-legal spheres that render this work and workers invisible. This paper documents the experiences of community support workers and contributes to our theoretical understanding of frontline health workers’ experiences of work during a global public health crisis.
{"title":"Community support workers’ experiences of working during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"K. Ravenswood, Fiona Hurd, Amber Nicholson, Andrea Fromm, Kirsty McCully, Melissa Woolley, Tanya Ewertowska","doi":"10.1080/10301763.2023.2209922","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10301763.2023.2209922","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper investigates the way in which COVID-19 has exacerbated the poor work conditions within community support work in Aotearoa-New Zealand. It examines the invisibility of care work in New Zealand during the COVID-19 pandemic, in terms of Government policy and communication, societal recognition of care work, and the spatially hidden nature of the work. It does so within the of gender norms in the socio-cultural, socio-spatial and socio-legal spheres that render this work and workers invisible. This paper documents the experiences of community support workers and contributes to our theoretical understanding of frontline health workers’ experiences of work during a global public health crisis.","PeriodicalId":45265,"journal":{"name":"Labour & Industry-A Journal of the Social and Economic Relations of Work","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41796051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-26DOI: 10.1080/10301763.2023.2193915
Abigail Osiki, Hassan Sadiq, P. Osiki, Vincent Oniga
ABSTRACT This article examines the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the work conditions of domestic workers in Nigeria. We use four indicators – earnings, access to social protection, working conditions and labour protections to provide a nuanced assessment on the impact of the pandemic on domestic workers. Domestic work is an important aspect of productive labour and an indispensable factor that contributes to the well-being of households and the economy. Indeed, the enormous contribution of this sector to societies has been further exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, while domestic workers are lauded as essential workers, their work remains extremely vulnerable to exploitation and human rights violations, and the pandemic has aggravated this situation. In the results, we find that while many domestic workers did not lose their jobs, their earning power dropped because of low wages in the sector. Furthermore, only 6% of survey respondents reported having access to the government’s social protection measures. The findings of this study emphasises the need for the development of a regulatory model which considers the realities of the domestic work sector. Data used in this article draws from questionnaires administered on 220 domestic workers across four geo-political zones of Nigeria.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-02DOI: 10.1080/10301763.2023.2184166
Shifan Thaha Abdullateef, Rabab Musa Alsheikh, Bahia Khalifa Ibrahim Mohammed
ABSTRACT One of the major aims of Saudi Vision 2030 is to create a dynamic, diverse and sustainable economy by generating employment opportunities for young Saudis. As Education sector plays a pivotal role in boosting economy of a country, the National Transformation Program (“NTP”) has laid down objectives to transform the education system with special focus on: 1. Improving recruitment, training and development of teachers, 2. Improving curricula and teaching methods. 3. Improving values and core skills and 4. Enhancing creativity and innovation. Based on the objectives laid by the NTP, the study aims to find the existing gaps between the present curricula and teaching methods in five major private and public universities of Saudi Arabia. It aims to identify the labour market needs with consideration to the six gigaprojects introduced by Saudi Arabia under economic diversification program and, provide guidelines for skills matching. The study adopts a triangular approach: interviews, documentation analysis and, Survey. Based on the results obtained and gaps identified, the researchers recommend taking into account, employers’ needs and the learners’ skill enhancement capabilities while formulating future educational programs to empower Saudi young generation to compete with international labor force and retain their monopoly in the saudi market.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-24DOI: 10.1080/10301763.2023.2170864
Roshni Das
The age of algorithms has changed both the way in which we demand products and the way in which we supply labour. In respect of the labour supply process, the complexity of adequately compensating human effort so that their survival is ensured is a problem that invites all manner of social, political and legal argumentation. Three recent books attempt to untangle this problem by visiting the intersection of antitrust, workers’ rights and algorithms. To specify, Acevedo (2020) takes on the issue of the rights of workers who work for platform companies; Posner (2021) looks at the inadequacies of antitrust laws in protecting workers’ rights, both in traditional and platform organisations; and Portuese (2022) highlights the technological hurdles of regulating platform companies via conventional antitrust legal precepts.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-28DOI: 10.1080/10301763.2023.2170761
Markus Sattler
ABSTRACT Why is there little discussion around positionalities and desires in enterprise research within economic geography and beyond? This paper advocates an ethico-political methodology by drawing on research praxes that articulate a need for situated knowledges. This article develops the case for enterprise research in which our positioned desires matter. Positioned desires acknowledge the role of desires as a critical aspect to appreciate the ethico-political aspects of knowledge production in enterprise research. These desires are positioned in a concrete historical and material-institutional context and should be open to interrogation in the research process. In order to arrive at this idea, I first review dominant forms of critical realism in economic geography, according to which the researcher analyzes an external ontological reality. I show how this misses to specify the ethico-political stakes of knowledge production. I exemplify this claim through an analysis of the ‘missing researchers’ in the Global Production Network literature and the performative exclusions that this positioned desire-free lacuna entails. Subsequently, I illustrate the implications of a ‘postcolonial ethico-onto-epistemology’, by examining the importance of positioned desires for doing enterprise research in Armenia and Georgia, showing the need for creativity in navigating ethically through a difficult terrain of manifold power differentials.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10301763.2023.2165761
Sandra Martain
ABSTRACT This study reveals the centrality of the exploitation of the worker body in the marketised context of aged care in Australia. Support workers are on the front line of the delivery of aged care services, yet remain low paid, undervalued and subject to increasingly precarious work. They perform a ‘Taylorised’ labour process within strict task and time requirements, which is at odds with the care needs of aged clients, in both residential facilities and in the private homes of aged clients. A conceptualisation of an ‘embodied labour process’ of support work is proposed to highlight the depth and complexity of the embodied labour power exploited in this labour process. The study finds that worker bodies experience considerable physical, mental and emotional strain from this exploitation. The study argues that the marketisation of aged care is in fact reliant upon the exploitation of these hidden, vulnerable and disposable worker bodies.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10301763.2023.2174712
Isabella Dabaja, Daniel Dinale, Lisa Gulesserian, C. Wright
ABSTRACT This article introduces the Labour & Industry special issue on ‘work not as usual’, following the theme of the 2022 AIRAANZ Conference. In introducing the articles published in the special issue, it examines key themes regarding how work and industrial relations are changing in unusual ways. These relate to the impacts of COVID-19; how work and industrial relations are shifting in the public sector and in the care economy; and how workers and organisations are responding to changes at work through voice, control and resistance. Analysis of these developments in the articles published in this special issue suggest that organisations and labour markets will continue to be defined by ‘work not as usual’ into the foreseeable future.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.20410/2073-7815-2023-34-1-103-115
Nikita I. Shepel, T. Divina
{"title":"USING LEAN MANUFACTURING TOOLS TO OPTIMIZE TECHNOLOGICAL PROCESS","authors":"Nikita I. Shepel, T. Divina","doi":"10.20410/2073-7815-2023-34-1-103-115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20410/2073-7815-2023-34-1-103-115","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45265,"journal":{"name":"Labour & Industry-A Journal of the Social and Economic Relations of Work","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73388597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.20410/2073-7815-2023-34-1-65-72
A. H. Lukmanov
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