6: Precarious ‘life-worlds’ and unpaid labour: Expanding research on precarious work at the interface between work and home
The growth of precarious work poses a challenge to generate significant rethinking on the future directions of work. We focus on the growing importance of the blurring of the boundaries between the sphere of public (paid) work and private home (domestic) work. Between these two spheres, there is eme...
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| description | The growth of precarious work poses a challenge to generate significant rethinking on the future directions of work. We focus on the growing importance of the blurring of the boundaries between the sphere of public (paid) work and private home (domestic) work. Between these two spheres, there is emerging work that is unpaid but necessary to engage in the public sphere of paid work. At the same time, this work relies on the existence of a private sphere that can support such unpaid work, often by making the domestic sphere more oriented to the marketability of its participants. We explain how this can provide a distinctive framework for understanding the reconfiguration of precarious work into that we label ‘precarious life-worlds’ by indicating the dimensions of temporality, spatiality and conditionality featuring the blurring between work and home. Thus, we propose a new direction for theory and research that expands the range of dimensions, processes, conditions and actors accounting for precarious work. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1744462026-04-10T14:24:52Z 6: Precarious ‘life-worlds’ and unpaid labour: Expanding research on precarious work at the interface between work and home Pulignano, Valeria Morgan, Glenn Precarious Work; Economic and Labour Sociology; Employment; Family; Gender; Home; Unpaid Labour JHBL KCF KJVS GBC The growth of precarious work poses a challenge to generate significant rethinking on the future directions of work. We focus on the growing importance of the blurring of the boundaries between the sphere of public (paid) work and private home (domestic) work. Between these two spheres, there is emerging work that is unpaid but necessary to engage in the public sphere of paid work. At the same time, this work relies on the existence of a private sphere that can support such unpaid work, often by making the domestic sphere more oriented to the marketability of its participants. We explain how this can provide a distinctive framework for understanding the reconfiguration of precarious work into that we label ‘precarious life-worlds’ by indicating the dimensions of temporality, spatiality and conditionality featuring the blurring between work and home. Thus, we propose a new direction for theory and research that expands the range of dimensions, processes, conditions and actors accounting for precarious work. Published 2026-04-10T14:24:50Z 2026-04-10T14:24:50Z 2026-03-19 chapter 9781035308347 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/174446 eng image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/handbook-on-precarious-work-9781035308330.html https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap-oa/book/9781035308347/chapter6.xml? Edward Elgar Publishing Edward Elgar Publishing 10.4337/9781035308347.00013 10.4337/9781035308347.00013 01ceac28-75b4-492a-8eec-f9b98bc6b28c https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 9781035308347 Edward Elgar Publishing Cheltenham, UK open access |
| spellingShingle | Precarious Work; Economic and Labour Sociology; Employment; Family; Gender; Home; Unpaid Labour JHBL KCF KJVS GBC Pulignano, Valeria Morgan, Glenn 6: Precarious ‘life-worlds’ and unpaid labour: Expanding research on precarious work at the interface between work and home |
| title | 6: Precarious ‘life-worlds’ and unpaid labour: Expanding research on precarious work at the interface between work and home |
| title_full | 6: Precarious ‘life-worlds’ and unpaid labour: Expanding research on precarious work at the interface between work and home |
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| title_short | 6: Precarious ‘life-worlds’ and unpaid labour: Expanding research on precarious work at the interface between work and home |
| title_sort | 6 precarious life worlds and unpaid labour expanding research on precarious work at the interface between work and home |
| topic | Precarious Work; Economic and Labour Sociology; Employment; Family; Gender; Home; Unpaid Labour JHBL KCF KJVS GBC |
| topic_facet | Precarious Work; Economic and Labour Sociology; Employment; Family; Gender; Home; Unpaid Labour JHBL KCF KJVS GBC |
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