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3244 - Precarious Work in Cross-national Perspective
Mon, August 12, 10:30am to 12:10pm, Sheraton New York, Floor: Lower Level, FlatironSession Submission Type: Paper Session 100min
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This session includes analyses of precarious work in South Korea, Japan, South Africa, and Brazil. Authors examine how work organization (degree of formalization), citizenship status, state recognition, and collective organization affect the nature of precarious work and opportunities for individuals and groups to protest and improve their working conditions.
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Symbolic Leverage of Precarious Regular Workers: The Case of Japan - Yuki Asahina, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Precarious Workers’ Space Production in the City: Seoul’s Tenant Shopkeepers’ Organizing and their Workers' Power - Yewon Andrea Lee, UCLA
Surviving the City: Refugees' livelihoods in Cape Town, South Africa - Gay W. Seidman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Antinomies of Social Inclusion: How São Paulo’s Waste Pickers became Excluded from ‘Inclusive Recycling’ - Manuel Zimbalist Rosaldo, Penn State University