Insecurity and Long-term Employment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2129915 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kevin Doogan (University of Bristol), Kevin J Doogan (University of Bristol, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 419-441 |
| Publication date | 2001-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Work Employment and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-0170 • E-ISSN: 1469-8722 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/09500170122119093 |
| OpenAlex | W2109643959 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 87 |
| References cited | 19 |
There is a widespread view that `jobs for life' and stable employment have been consigned to the past. The impact of technological and institutional changes are said to have eradicated traditional labour market patterns, brought about the destandardisation and individualisation of work and ushered in a new `age of insecurity'. The transformation of work, according to Sennet (1998), has witnessed the advent of a `New Capitalism' in which there is `no long term'. This paper is concerned with explanations for the paradox of pervasive insecurity and the rise in long-term employment in the 1990s in the UK. The analysis of long-term employment in the UK suggests that insecurity is not explained by compositional changes in the workforce or in terms of labour market restructuring. Instead insecurity is best understood in its institutional and ideological contexts, as the `manufactured uncertainty' that attends the greater exposure of the state sector to market forces, corporate restructuring in the private sector in terms of mergers, acquisitions and sell-offs and the diminution of social protection systems
Business · Capitalism · Economic growth · Economics · Ideology · Job insecurity · Labour economics · Market economy · Political science · Politics · Precarious work · Private sector · Restructuring · Term (time · Work (physics · Workforce · Employment and Welfare Studies · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies
De ‘nieuwe economie’
Living life to the full? Temporary employment and youth biographies in the wake of the 2008 Recession
Évolution de l'importance des emplois à vie au Royaume‐Uni
The brave new world of unstable jobs hiding in plain sight
Work and immigrants
Never Employable Enough
Individualization and Equality
Handbook of Children and Youth Studies
Fractured Transitions
Post-Endüstriyel İyimserlikten Hegemonik Despotizme
Sociological Conceptualisations of ‘Career’
Employed under different rules
Spaces of the Home
Post-crisis, post-Ford and post-gender? Youth identities in an era of austerity
Am I just not good enough? The creation, development and questioning of a high performance coaching identity
Restructuration de l'entreprise et responsabilité
The New Economy and the Work–Life Balance
The New Economy, Class Condescension and Caring Labour
Gendered divisions in the new economy
An independent review of British health and safety regulation? From common sense to non-sense
Irresponsible citizens? New Labour, citizenship and the case of non-payment of local taxation
Lithuanian men’s struggles with precarious life
Subcontracted Employment and its Challenge to Labor
Quantity over quality? How economic factors and welfare state interventions affected job insecurity and job quality before, during and after the economic crises
Reconfigurations of Gender and Class Relations
Place, Class and Local Circuits of Reproduction
The narratives of hardship
Employment and its Institutional Contexts
Have careers become boundaryless
Long-term Employment and the Restructuring of the Labour Market in Europe
Work, Life and Time in the New Economy
Perceptions of Job Security in Europe’s Ageing Workforce
Theoretical Concept of Labor Underutilization - How to Optimize Labor Demand
En historie om fast og midlertidig arbeid gjennom 1900-tallet, med linjer fram til i dag
Poststructuralism against poststructuralism
The Work of Professional Football
Positioning precarity
Understanding Social and Spatial Divisions in the New Economy
The Contradictions and Intersections of Class and Gender in a Global City
The condition of labour-a retrospect
The Uneven Impact of Neoliberalism on Housing Opportunities
The Nostalgia for Permanence at Work? The End of Work and its Commentators
Joining, Constructing and Benefiting from the Global Workplace
Employment, Individualization and Insecurity
The Activating Welfare State and Precarisation
Sociological Futures and the Sociology of Work
What's Work Got to Do with It? How Precarity Influences Radical Party Support in France and the Netherlands
Managing Self-management
Are All the Stable Jobs Gone? The Transformation of the Worker-Firm Relationship and Trends in Job Tenure Duration and Separations in Canada, 1976-2015
Labour casualization and the psychosocial health of workers in Australia
Transnational regulation of temporary agency work compromised partnership between Private Employment Agencies and Global Union Federations
Gender, work, employment and society
Making sense of insecurity
When the working day is through
The nightmare of temporary work
No more heroes? Reflections on the 20th anniversary of the miners' strike and the culture of opposition
Employment insecurity and social theory
A very precarious profession
Portfolio Careers' and the Search for Flexibility in Later Life
The Changing Meaning of Work
Work Identity in Crisis? Rethinking the Problem of Attachment and Loss at Work
Job Demands, Job Resources, and Job Satisfaction in East Asia
Post‐Fordism
Urban Poverty and the Underclass
The Rise of the Network Society
Economic Action and Social Structure
New Modes of Control in the Public Service
Job Tenure in Britain 1975-92
The Globalization of Public Services Production
Fragmented Societies
Pathways to Industrialization and Regional Development
The Marketization of Local Services and the Fragmentation of Labour Markets
The Condition of Postmodernity
Mary Wollstonecraft's social theory in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Morphology and pathology
| Unique citing works | 62 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,48 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2025 (25) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 87 |