Precarious employment and precarious resistance: "we are people still". Issue 2 (3rd May 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lewchuk, Wayne; Dassinger, Janet
• Is Part Of: Studies in political economy. Volume 97:Issue 2(2016)
• Page Start: 143
• Page End: 158
• Publication Date: 2016-05-03
• Subjects: Labour markets -- precarious employment -- unions -- unorganized workers -- worker resistance; Economics -- Political aspects -- Periodicals; Socialism -- Periodicals; Economics -- Periodicals; Canada -- Economic conditions -- Periodicals; Economie politique -- Périodiques; Canada -- Conditions économiques -- Périodiques; Economic history; Economics; Canada; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 330
• DOI: 10.1080/07078552.2016.1211397
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0707-8552

Abstract

Abstract: This paper explores worker resistance at the point of production, and how the terrain of workplace control is both different and more ambiguous for workers in precarious employment compared to that of workers in secure employment. For the most part, this is the story of unorganized workers who face their employers without the protection of a formal union. The main focus of this study is the individualized, informal, and under-the-radar strategies that workers employ to shape workplace outcomes, and how these strategies might translate into broader collective action.