Most workers are still employees, not casuals or gig workers. So what has changed to increase the insecurity of workers?
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There is very little evidence that overall labour market insecurity is getting any worse. Trends are stable for rates of casualisation, churn, self-employment and multiple job holders.
Despite relatively stable and low levels of unemployment, workers are increasingly concerned that their jobs are at risk.
The costs of casual work are now outweighing the slim benefits in wages (and even those are not as much as they used to be).
The Australian Industry Group (Ai Group) said that casual employment has not increased in Australia for the past 18 years. Is that right?
The term “precariat” conveys the idea that the old working class, the proletariat, has transmuted into a new social class where work and life are characterised by precariousness and risk. While the old…
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Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne
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Professor of Employment Relations, Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing, Griffith University
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Research Associate, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Executive Director, John Curtin Institute of Public Policy, Curtin University
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Director, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre and Bankwest Research Chair in Economic Policy, Curtin University
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Joshua Healy is a Friend of The Conversation.
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Workplace Leadership, University of Melbourne
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Principal Research Fellow, National Institute of Labour Studies, Flinders University
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Associate Professor, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University
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Senior Research Fellow, Curtin University
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Research fellow, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University
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Research Assistant, Industrial Relations, University of Melbourne
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PhD Candidate, The University of Queensland
