Tackling Precarious Work

In this ground-breaking book, leading applied research scholars, advocates, and activists from across the globe show how Industrial and Organizational (I/O) psychology has a significant contribution to make in humanity moving away from precarious work situations towards sustainable livelihoods.

Tackling precarious work has been described by the United Nations (UN)'s International Labour Organization (ILO) as the main challenge facing the world of work. In this ground-breaking book, leading applied research scholars, advocates, and activists from across the globe respond to this challenge by showing how Industrial and Organizational (I/O) psychology has a significant contribution to make in humanity moving away from precarious work situations towards sustainable livelihoods.

Broken down into four key parts on Sustainable Livelihoods, Fair Incomes, Work Security and Social Protection, the book covers a multitude of topics including the role of poor pay, lack of work-related security, social protection for human health and wellbeing, and interventions and policies to implement for the future of work. The volume offers a detailed look into useful and effective ways to tackle precarious work to create and maintain sustainable livelihoods. This curated collection of 22 chapters considers the broader relationships between previous research work and issues of human security and sustainability that affect workers, families, communities, and societies. Each chapter expands the present understandings of the world of precarious work and how it fits within broader issues of economic, ecological, and social sustainability.

In addition to I/O psychologists in research, practice, service and study, this book will also be useful for organizational researchers, labor unions, HR practitioners, fair trade, cooperative, and civil society organizations, social scientists, human security analysts, public health professionals, economists, and supporters of the UN SDGs, including at the UN.

Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Autorentext

Stuart C. Carr is UNESCO Professor on Sustainable Livelihoods and a Professor of Psychology in the School of Psychology at Massey University, New Zealand. Stu's research, service, and teaching focus on transformation from insecure, precarious work to sustainable livelihoods, under the aegis of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Dr Veronica Hopner is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology, Massey University in New Zealand. Her research interests include modern slavery, occupational health psychology and violent extremism.

Darrin J. Hodgetts is a Professor of Societal Psychology at Massey University where he researches issues of human [in]security, including urban poverty. Darrin has held various academic positions in Canada, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand, and his work is increasingly focused on the Asia Pacific region.

Megan Young is an Assistant Lecturer in the School of Psychology at Massey University, New Zealand. With an undergraduate degree in English Literature, she is particularly interested in the different ways that research can be communicated to a broader audience where it may benefit professionals and lay people alike.

Klappentext

Tackling precarious work has been described by the United Nations (UN)'s International Labour Organization (ILO) as the main challenge facing the world of work. In this ground-breaking book, leading applied research scholars, advocates, and activists from across the globe respond to this challenge by showing how Industrial and Organizational (I/O) psychology has a significant contribution to make in humanity moving away from precarious work situations towards sustainable livelihoods. Broken down into four key parts on Sustainable Livelihoods, Fair Incomes, Work Security and Social Protection, the book covers a multitude of topics including the role of poor pay, lack of work-related security, social protection for human health and wellbeing, and interventions and policies to implement for the future of work. The volume offers a detailed look into useful and effective ways to tackle precarious work to create and maintain sustainable livelihoods. This curated collection of 22 chapters considers the broader relationships between previous research work and issues of human security and sustainability that affect workers, families, communities, and societies. Each chapter expands the present understandings of the world of precarious work and how it fits within broader issues of economic, ecological, and social sustainability. In addition to I/O psychologists in research, practice, service and study, this book will also be useful for organizational researchers, labor unions, HR practitioners, fair trade, cooperative, and civil society organizations, social scientists, human security analysts, public health professionals, economists, and supporters of the UN SDGs, including at the UN. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Inhalt

Series Foreword

Kevin Murphy and Angelo Denisi

1. From Precarious Work to Sustainable Livelihoods: Introduction to the Volume

Stuart C. Carr, Darrin J. Hodgetts, Veronica Hopner, and Megan Young

Part I. Sustainable Livelihoods ****

2. From Precarious Work to Decent Work: Lessons from the United Nations and Humanitarian Work Psychology

Jeffrey M. Saltzman, Walter Reichman, and Mary O'Neill Berry

3. Psychology of Working Theory: Decent Work for Decent Lives

Annamaria Di Fabio, Mary Beth Medvide, and Maureen E. Kenny ****

4. Humanitarian Work Policy and Praxis

Rosalind H. Searle and Ishbel McWha-Hermann

5. NGO Diplomacy to Monitor and Influence Business and Government to Tackle Work Precariousness

Raymond Saner and Lichia Yiu

6. Let's just talk about it!: Combating Precarious Work in Global Supply Chains

Divya Jyoti and Bimal Arora

Part II. Fair Incomes

7. The Living Wage in South Africa: A Psychological approach from Cape Town and Tshwane

Ines Meyer and Molefe Maleka

8. Closing the Capability Gap in Tackling Precarious Work

Mendiola Teng-Calleja, Donald Jay Bertulfo, and Jose Antonio R. Clemente

9. Sufficiency Living Wage in Thailand: Exploring Buddhist: Influences on Sustainable Livelihoods and Happiness

Dusadee Yoelao Intraprasert, Kanu Priya Mohan, and Piyada Sombatwattana

10. Tackling Wage Inequality: The Maximum wage

Stuart C. Carr, Veronica Hopner, Darrin Hodgetts, and Megan Young

Part III. Work Security

11. Informal Work as Sustainable Work: Pathways to Sustainable Livelihoods

Mahima Saxena and Charles Tchagneno

12. Making a go of it in the gig economy: Understanding risk in platform-based work

Kristine M. Kuhn

13. Sustainable Psychological Contracts: A pathway for addressing precarious employment

Yannick Griep, Sarah Bankins, Johannes M. Kraak, Ultan Sherman, and Samantha D. Hansen

14. Defining work-related precariousness and how to measure it to secure health and wellbeing

Christian Seubert and Lisa Seubert (née Hopfgartner)

15. Redressing Underemployment as a Type of Precarious Work

Deirdre O'Shea, José Maria Peiró, and Donald M. Truxillo

16. Challenges associated with regulating zero hours work

J. Lavelle, J. McMahon, C. Murphy, L. Ryan, M. O'Sullivan, M. O'Brien, P. Gunnigle, and T. Turner

Part IV. Social Protection

17. Is Work-Life Balance Only for Some? A Case for More Low Income and Precariat Samples

Jarrod Haar

18. Multilevel Factors Counteracting the Adverse Effects of Job Insecurity

Lixin Jiang, Katharina Naswall, and Xiaohong (Violet) Xu

19. R…