Economic Insecurity and Global Casualisation: Threat or Promise?

Autor/in	Standing, Guy
Titel	Economic Insecurity and Global Casualisation: Threat or Promise?
Quelle	In: Social Indicators Research, 88 (2008) 1, S.15-30 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0303-8300
DOI	10.1007/s11205-007-9202-7
Schlagwörter	Poverty; Income; Employment; Global Approach; Compensation (Remuneration); Wages + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Armut; Einkommen; Dienstverhältnis; Globales Denken; Abfindung; Kompensation; Lohnausgleich; Wage; Löhne
Abstract	Casualisation has both negative and positive sides, for both workers and employers. This article considers how the positive sides could be developed while allowing casual work to continue to grow. In reviewing the advantages and disadvantages of casual labour for employers, the paper depicts casualisation (and the related process of "informalisation") as usually involving seven forms of economic insecurity for the worker. The modern casualisation that is taking place as part of globalisation involves a steady restructuring of "social income" and labour recommodification, in which many workers are finding that an increasing share of their remuneration is coming from money wages, which are a relatively insecure part of their social income. As a result, there is a need to find new ways of providing income security that could allow workers to accept the more casual work arrangements without excessive anxiety and alienation. The article is, essentially, an argument for a re-assertion of a common sense of social solidarity, in which casual work can be a normal part of a flexible labour and work system. (As Provided).
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