Descripción del proyecto
Un replanteamiento del continuo del trabajo remunerado y no remunerado
Hace ya mucho tiempo que nadie tiene un trabajo para toda la vida. La flexibilidad laboral no deja de aumentar y cada vez más gente trabaja de forma independiente por necesidad o elección propia. También existen diversos tipos de trabajo no remunerado como la asistencia, el trabajo como precondición al cobro de subvenciones o la economía emergente basada en plataformas digitales. La tradicional dicotomía entre el trabajo remunerado (productivo o asalariado) y no remunerado (reproductivo o no asalariado) marginaliza el trabajo no remunerado. El proyecto financiado con fondos europeos REsPecTMe estudiará esta distinción y replanteará la precariedad del continuo del trabajo remunerado y no remunerado. Propondrá un nuevo modelo teórico, un nuevo método de medición y herramientas de vigilancia de la precariedad a escala europea.
Objetivo
The traditional dichotomy of paid (productive or waged) versus unpaid (reproductive or unwaged) work marginalizes unpaid work when conceptualizing precariousness, i.e. the exposure to unpredictability towards an individual’s future. It also neglects several types of unpaid work such as care work, work as a precondition for welfare payments, and newly emerging on- and offline work in the gig economy for which people in paid work are not compensated or where it is used to access paid work. A novel scientific perspective is needed, which breaks the paid/unpaid distinction, and rethinks precariousness on the paid/unpaid work continuum by uncovering the unpaid activities that increasingly underlie paid employment as a source of ‘value’ creation in the labour market. ResPecTMe will generate a new theoretical model of, and a measurement approach and monitoring tools for, precariousness at the paid and unpaid work continuum.
Using my unique experience of studying workers’ subjectivity within their societal contexts, I will achieve this by i) using a sequential mix of qualitative and quantitative methodologies to study precariousness at the paid/unpaid work continuum, and its social effects, in three core areas of work (i.e. care, crowd/gig- and creative), across and within eight European countries; ii) developing a comprehensive theory of precariousness at this continuum; iii) generating a valid, standardized and multi-indicator measurement (i.e. survey module) of precariousness at this continuum; iv) implementing monitoring tools for precariousness at the European level (i.e. rotating module for ESS and EPM). The theoretical knowledge, the measurement and the monitoring tools will address ongoing scientific and social challenges on how to study precariousness by innovating current conceptualisation of work in the scientific and policy community dealing with precarious work.
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ERC-ADG - Advanced GrantInstitución de acogida
3000 Leuven
Bélgica