Essential work, inessential workers?

Helfen, Markus, Delbridge, Rick ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8451-265X, Pekarek, Andreas (Andi) and Purser, Gretchen 2024. Essential work, inessential workers? Helfen, Markus, Delbridge, Rick, Pekarek, Andreas (Andi) and Purser, Gretchen, eds. Essentiality of Work, Vol. 36. Research in the Sociology of Work, pp. 1-10. (10.1108/S0277-283320240000036001)

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Abstract

In this chapter, we introduce the topic of essentiality of work, exploring its implications for workers, labour markets, and public policy. The essentiality of work often corresponds in a dialectical way with the precarity of work, raising pressing questions about how societies value and, more pertinently, devalue various types of labour, thereby influencing life chances and societal integration. What we see in the contributions to this volume and the wider evidence is that essential work is typically performed by workers who are treated as expendable, or inessential. We proceed to outline the various contributions from the studies compiled in this volume. These present diverse perspectives on ‘essentiality’ and the experiences of essential workers. Offering a range of new empirical insights, the volume underlines the vitality and lasting relevance of essentiality – both as a concept and in the experience of workers – beyond the pandemic.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
ISBN:	9781836081494
ISSN:	0277-2833
Last Modified:	31 Oct 2024 12:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/173506

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