SOCD05H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Temporary Work, Precarious Work, Pink-Collar Worker
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> precarious employment - different than how it was few years ago & most likely to impact us. > precarious work = precarious workers are those who fill permanent job needs but are denied permanent employee rights - taken over wide areas in labour market on part-time or non-permanent basis. > 80% of new jobs created are considered precarious. > legal difference b/w employees and self-employed or independent contractors. > 9-month contract and renewing contract - employees. > fields of pw - low wages, few hours = service sector, pink collar jobs -- shift where u have legal employees replaced with self-employed or independent contractors rising. > law firms, kind of jobs have turned into pw. > professors considered most secure & protected jobs but now sessionals - hired for particular time to teach -- this is a trend that just hasn"t happened in the low end of the economy in the labour market.
