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122: 101:. Scholars and critics who use the term "precarious work" contrast it with the "standard employment relationship", which is the term they use to describe full-time, continuous employment where the employee works on their employer's premises or under the employer's supervision, under an employment contract of indefinite duration, with standardized working hours/weeks and social benefits such as 189: 72:
who see these changes as positive for individual workers. Precarious is work is ultimately a result of a profit driven capitalist organization of work in which employment is largely understood as a cost that needs to be reduced. The social and political consequences vary greatly in terms gender, age,
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at the age of 65. It did not typically describe women in the same time period, who would only work temporarily until they got married and had children, at which time they would withdraw from the workforce.
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and in employment relationships has created new opportunities for regulation, regulation intended explicitly to remediate precarious work often produces mixed results. The
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which demands flexibility in the workplace, resulting in the decline of the standard employment relationship, particularly for women. The characterization of
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that may be poorly paid, insecure, unprotected, and unable to support a household. From this perspective,
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The term "precarious work" is frequently associated with the following types of employment:
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benefits, and medical coverage. This "standard employment relationship" emerged after
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race and class and result in varying degrees of inequality and freedom.
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affords individual workers. However, many studies promoting individual
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is a term that critics use to describe non-standard or temporary
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For the general condition, global perspectives, see
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Index

Atypical work
Precarity
employment
globalization
manufacturing sector
service sector
information technology
economy
temporary work
entrepreneurs
Part-time jobs
self-employment
temporary work
on-call
remote workers
pensions
unemployment
World War II
retirement

We Can Do It!
part-time
temporary
agency
temporary work
agency
knowledge workers
temporary workers
marketplace
International Labour Organization

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