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E-book Well-Being and Mental Health in the Gig Economy : Policy Perspectives on Precarity

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The expansion of the so-called gig economy, where flexible patterns of employment prevail in contrast to permanent jobs, is causing numerous issues. The UK Government’s inquiry into Employment Practices in the Modern Economy is a much-neededinitiative in response to this trend: the number of self-employedworkers in Britain has increased by 1 million between 2008 and 20153, while so-called ‘zero-hours contracts’ have also reached a record high4. The transformation in British labour relations and the departure from traditional forms of employment is part of a global trend that has emerged as a result of new technology-enabled business models. This trend is exemplified in the digital economy and the decrease in full-time long-term job offers over the last decade or so. Indeed, according to the Office for National Statistics’ most recent report on self-employment: ‘the number of self-employed reporting themselves as working on their own, or with a partner but no employees, has increased between 2001 and 2016, while those who report themselves as having employees has fallen over the same period’5. This mirrors the conditions frequently found within the music sector. Apart from the increase in earlier forms of flexible work, such as part-time employment or ixed-term contracts, new patterns of atypical work contracts and ‘on demand’ work have also proliferated6.Work is increasingly being carried out on online plat-forms connecting buyers and sellers, or by large project teams across borders and time zones [. . .] Active labour-market policies are needed to cater for the changing real-ity in the world of work. This concerns social security systems, which must adapt to new, constantly changing, requirements7.These shifts have given rise to tensions around access to high quality essential services by workers of the gig economy. These include issues such as whether social protection is adequate and sustainable, whether working conditions are fair, whether there is a balance between flexibility and security elements, and what and how high the risks are for both workers and employers.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

616.89 GRO w

Penerbit

London : University of Westminster Press., 2018

Deskripsi Fisik

39 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781911534921

Klasifikasi

616.89

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Mental Disorders

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