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Precarious employment and precarious resistance: “we are people still”

Abstract

This paper explores worker resistance at the point of production, and how the terrain of workplace control is both different and more ambiguous for workers in precarious employment compared to that of workers in secure employment. For the most part, this is the story of unorganized workers who face their employers without the protection of a formal union. The main focus of this study is the individualized, informal, and under-the-radar strategies that workers employ to shape workplace outcomes, and how these strategies might translate into broader collective action.

Authors

Lewchuk W; Dassinger J

Volume

97

Pagination

pp. 143-158

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Publication Date

May 3, 2016

DOI

10.1080/07078552.2016.1211397

Conference proceedings

Studies in Political Economy / Recherches en économie politique

Issue

2

ISSN

0707-8552

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