Labour Commodification in the Employment Heartland: Union Responses to Teachers' Temporary Work.

Autor/inn/en	McGrath-Champ, Susan; Fitzgerald, Scott; Gavin, Mihajla; Stacey, Meghan; Wilson, Rachel
Titel	Labour Commodification in the Employment Heartland: Union Responses to Teachers' Temporary Work. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Kommodifizierung der Arbeit im Kerngebiet der Beschäftigung: Gewerkschaftliche Antworten auf die Leiharbeit von Lehrern.
Quelle	In: Work, employment and society, 37 (2022) 5, S. 1165-1185 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1469-8722
DOI	10.1177/09500170211069854
Schlagwörter	Bildungssystem; Schule; Lehrer; Segmentierung; Gewerkschaftspolitik; Öffentliche Einrichtung; Marktorientierung; Ökonomisierung; Beschäftigungsentwicklung; Arbeitsmarkt; Arbeitsplatzsicherheit; Geringfügige Beschäftigung; Befristeter Arbeitsvertrag; Institution; Australien
Abstract	"This article analyses the commodification of professional labour and union responses to these processes within the employment heartland. It explores the category of fixed-contract or 'temporary' employment using Australian public school teaching as the empirical lens. Established to address intensifying conditions of labour market insecurity, the union-led creation of the temporary category was intended to partly decommodify labour by providing intermediate security between permanent and 'casual' employment. However, using historical case and contemporary survey data, we discern that escalation of temporary teacher numbers and intensifying work-effort demands concurrently increased insecurity within the teacher workforce, constituting recommodification. The article contributes to scant literature on unions and commodification, highlighting that within the current marketised context, labour commodification may occur through contradictory influences at multiple levels, and that union responses to combat this derogation of work must similarly be multi-level and sustained." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2022/3