Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/299667 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2019.03
Publisher: 
European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), Brussels
Abstract: 
The traditional dichotomy of paid versus unpaid work has a tendency to marginalise unpaid work when we attempt to conceptualise precariousness, leading to our perception that it involves exposure to the unpredictability of an individual's future. A new theoretical and empirical perspective is thus required - one that breaks with the distinction between paid and unpaid work and rethinks precariousness in terms of the paid-unpaid continuum of work by identifying the unpaid activities that increasingly underlie paid employment as a source of 'value' creation in a deregulated labour market. This paper proposesan original heuristic analytical framework for the study of precariousness within the continuum of paid and unpaid work, while presenting its features, explaining the various underlying motives and shedding light on its scientific and policyrelated dimensions.
Subjects: 
atypical employment
Deregulation
labor market flexibility
Operational value creation
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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