Precarious Employment is a Phenomenon of the Modern Economy

Occupation: Head of Department; Chief Researcher
Affiliation:
Russian State University for the Humanities
Institute of Sociology of FCTAS RAS
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow

Journal name

Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya

Edition

Issue 8

Pages

3-13

Abstract

The article analyzes the variety of forms of employment. A characteristic is given of the most common definitions of employment, which were proposed and are offered in interpreting the real-life situation of attracting and using labor at various stages of industrial and post-industrial development. Particular attention is paid to special, specific forms of employment – non-standard, informal, atypical, unsustainable, as well as their adequacy to existing economic realities. It is shown that all of them, reflecting the prevailing practice of the use of labor, have limitations in characterizing the possibilities of using human potential and their compliance with the officially approved and approved principles of the use of labor. It is argued that with the advent of the 4th industrial revolution and 6th technological order, these classifications do not fully correspond to the actual situation, especially with regard to changes that, according to the author, can be more adequately expressed in the concept of “precarious employment”. In this regard, its definition is given, its features are described and explained. It is emphasized that precarious employment has various degrees of its severity, in connection with which are characterized its criteria.

Keywords

employment, precarious employment, standard and precarious employment, formal and informal employment, typical and atypical employment

Received

30.05.2020

Publication date

15.09.2020

Number of characters

31362

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GOST	Toschenko Z. Precarious Employment is a Phenomenon of the Modern Economy // Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya – 2020. – Issue 8 C. 3-13 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/socis/s013216250009904-7-1-en (circulation date: 20.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S013216250009904-7
MLA	Toschenko, Zhan T "Precarious Employment is a Phenomenon of the Modern Economy." Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya 8 (2020):3-13. DOI: 10.31857/S013216250009904-7
APA	Toschenko Z. (2020). Precarious Employment is a Phenomenon of the Modern Economy. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya (8), pp.3-13 DOI: 10.31857/S013216250009904-7

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