Imagined futures in precarious working conditions

A gender matter

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ID2306232
AuthorsAnna Carreri (0000-0002-0426-9571, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento, Italy; SEIN- Identity, Diversity & Inequality Research, Faculty of Business Economics, University of Hasselt, Belgium, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume70
Issue5
Pages742-760
Publication date2022-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCurrent Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0011-3921 • E-ISSN: 1461-7064
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00113921211001089
OpenAlexW3194291201
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited39

Today younger generations are entering adult life with no expectation of guaranteed employment or secure working conditions. In this article the author explores how employment precariousness in subjects with young children shapes the future projections they envisage for themselves, relating to both professional and family life, and considers the politics of gender diversity in this process of 'projecting'. By drawing on a detailed narrative analysis of the life stories of 40 Italian parents facing job insecurity, three ideal typical future projections are identified that disclose diverse ways of 'reacting' to insecure employment and to their futures. They are described as: hopeful open end; discouraged open end; and confident open end. The analysis shows how these imagined futures depend on - and contribute to produce in terms of processes - forms of precarity and of social reproduction of labour which are different between men and women

Diversity (politics) · Economics · Futures contract · Ideal (ethics) · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Precarity · Reproduction · Social capital · Social reproduction · Social science · Sociology · Employment and Welfare Studies · Gender Studies · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics

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