Casual or short-term contracts, a lack of professional development, little hope of career progression: a survey of academic working conditions sounds a warning.
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Many millions are in need of short-term credit to supplement poor and exploitative pay.
Unemployment levels are low, but many people are being pushed into inadequately paid jobs by a punitive benefit system and lack of choice.
Even where communities are mixed, many inner-city families go to extraordinary financial and geographic lengths to ensure their children do not go to school with children from ‘the flats’.
The arguments for an universal basic income have emerged from a rising disillusionment in classic economics and expectations of more security.
External pressure has led to delivery giant, Hermes, being referred to the chief tax man over whether or not its workers should be classified as ‘self-employed’.
A century on from the UK’s only ever general strike, the major federation for organised labour in Britain must learn to be more effective.
Working in a care home should come with better career prospects.
With secure jobs hard to find, it’s easier for people from higher social classes to be in temporary work.
Many young people are part of the precariat – in low-paid insecure work.
I have worked with young people all my life, as a youth worker, academic teacher and youth policy adviser. I have observed their trajectories, listened to their aspirations, supported them in the steps…
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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Affiliate Research Associate, School of Political and Social Sciences, University of Glasgow
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Emeritus Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, The University of Melbourne
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Research Associate, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Professor of Social Policy, University of Salford
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Professor of European Youth Policy, Faculty of Business and Society, University of South Wales
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Associate Professor, Honorary Principal Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Work and Employment, University of Glasgow
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Professor of Education, University of Huddersfield
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Senior Research Fellow, Coventry University
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Director & Professor, Stellenbosch University
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Etudiante PhD, Grenoble École de Management (GEM)
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Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Research Methods, University of Salford
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Professor of Accounting, Brunel University London
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Massey University
