In the dual labour market analysis, workers are divided into two parts: core and periphery. Core workers are highly skilled, well-paid and usually make up a small percentage of the whole labour market. While periphery workers, greatly outnumber the former, are low-skilled or unskilled and more disposable. (Castell,1996) Both Usell and Christopherson argue that the labour markets of their research area are dual. But the ways they distinguish core and periphery are different. Christopherson and Storper divide core and periphery basing on the chances of accessing work hours. Two-thirds of the workers who got enough work hours could be counted as full-time workers. And the rest of the workers often experience longer unemployment period between …show more content…
(2001) Blair indicates that they ignored the fluency about the workers, how they move from job to job. In Blair’s research, semi-permanent work groups are significant units in the labour market of the motion picture industry. Workers always work as a team and cooperate well with each other. Because of the inner connection of a group, when the employers recruit workers for a project, they need to recruit them as teams. This semi-permanent mechanism reduces the uncertainty of the work hours and blurs the boundary between the core and periphery. Actually, the motivation of the individual workers decided the boundary could never be static at the first …show more content…
This situation started in the mid-1980s in the UK television industry. There are estimated about 3000 new workers enter the UK television industry every year from the mid-1990s. These new enters are eager for working experiences far more than remuneration. Because the former performance, reputation and interpersonal connections are the keys to getting a job or join a project, new comers are willing to or have to get these by sacrificing the payment. This situation that a large number of low-paid or unpaid workers on an already redundant (since the mid-1980s) labour pool is strongly beneficial to the employers. It also increases competition, brings out a high churn rate in the television industry. For the older workers who are less attractive to the employers compared with low demand and highly enthusiastic newcomers, they may be marginalized or even pushed out of the
Go into a movie theatre and you will find they primarily employ young people. However, step into a Wal-Mart or a grocery store and you will find the employees there are, on average, much older than those employed at a movie theatre. Why is this the case? The low wages movie theatres pay, combined with wanting certain demographic working there play a role in this. Additionally, why do most of these people stay in low paying jobs they may not enjoy doing? Using my experience working at a movie theatre, I can understand why some people choose to accept and continue working in low paying jobs, and why it is that only young people work there.
Introduction “‘Who does that cracker think he is?’” (LeDuff 355). A quote from the article “At a Slaughterhouse Some Things Never Die,” Charlie LeDuff informs readers of the racial discrimination in the workplace of a slaughterhouse. In another article, “Working at Bazooms,” Meika Loe uncovers the power struggle and inequality between men and women in a workplace she dubs “bazooms.” The disrespect and unfairness is prevalent in these two qualitative studies.
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Changes in unemployment in Australia is a key issue in this news article. In the last twelve months, unemployment in Australia has dropped from 5.6 per cent to 5.1 per cent which is described as ‘a puzzle’ in the news article. Looking closer, there are some possible explanations for this change in statistics. Previously, unemployment in Australia increased in the time of the recent global economic downturn, although didn’t suffer as poorly as other countries according to data from the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development. However, while unemployment rose, so too did the number of people in other forms of underemployment such as part-time and casual work (OECD, 2010). According to Sappey et. al., the status of employment requires workers to only work one hour per week and so therefore many underemployed workers receive the same employed status in this data as full-time workers (Sappey et. al., 2010, p. 111). According to the OECD, under-employment increased significantly during the downturn, rather than unemployment. Unemployment has dropped in the last twelve months but that does not mean that those who have obtained work have gained full-time employment. In fact, according to the Australia labour market trends of the last twelve months, it is more than likely that those who have become an ‘employed’ statistic rather than ‘unemployed’ have not gained full-time work. This news article quotes figures fro...
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- The labour market is over-regulated, which provides an incentive for employers not to hire.
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With such a degree of team work expected by the organization so to should the human nature of individuals placed in such situations to form bonds and relationships beyond work be expected. The days of 9 to 5 with plenty of time in the evening and on weekends to interact with others socially are not as prevalent in today’s U.S. workforce. The U.S. works longer hours than other countries and takes shorter vacations if any at all compared to other countries.
by working for others, being unable to find a job is a serious problem. Because
First, I must state that my research focuses primarly on developed countries in North America and Europe. The hypothesis for the thesis divides those countries into two cateogories based on the level of labor protections their welfare states have. The first cateogory is countries with strong worker protections. These are countries that according Lindvall and Rueda are most exposed to the effects of dualization and have an insider/outsider dilemma. Following this research I split the population into two groups insiders and outsiders. Insiders are people in work with strong labor protections and outsiders either have no job (and are looking for work) or a job with weak labor protections (part-time job). Next, I split these groups into two more cateogories; workers who receive high net social welfare benefits and workers who receive low social welfare benefits.
to work at going wage rates are able to find work. At this point, a
The structural-functional analysis of jobs in the U.S. is governed by the workforce stratification and technology. The more educated and diverse a society is the better society’s job market is served. This social economic separation of class has been both good and bad for society. Many workers at the lower levels of employment are both pleased and displeased with many aspects of work. Though this fact also holds true with most any job at any level, pay scale often compensates for endurance of a particular job type. The security of a person’s job also is an issue that in today’s economic times forces one to be prepared for change. This is to say that even if one’s field of expertise is needed today it may not be tomorrow. This type of ever-changing job market leads many to believe that another socio-economic change may occur at any time. This change was apparent with the transition into the industrial age and again in the information age. These concerns caused stress, various health issues, a...
Steven (2003) identifies a few of the social and organizational behavioural circumstances that effect teams in a real-life workplace in the 1990s through four different manufacturing plants. Findings showed that even though the plants had adopted new working practices, the main problem was the boundary between salary and hourly employees. It also highlighted the fact disputes in the workplace changed management understanding of teams, and therefore managers were less likely to take on board any suggestions, which in turn created a negative impact. Some managers felt as though they then needed to form a person-centred authority. Eventually such charismatic authority did inspire team members giving them the feeling of significance; ultimately they were shown to be highly
The evolution of the market economy began during the pre-industrial era and ended roughly, by the end of the industrial revolution. Throughout this time, the nature of labor drastically changed for the American workers and slaves, specifically in Philadelphia. Society was predominantly based off artisan work up until the emergence of the division of labor. Adam Smith and Alexis de Tocqueville have different opinions on how it affected the development of labor in America. Smith has a positive view on it, whereas Alexis views the negative. Furthermore, the introduction of machines majorly affected the workplace. Aside from the increase of productivity, Eli Whitneys cotton gin and the mechanical loom caused rebellions to occur among slaves and artisans, respectively. Needless to say, production in early America skyrocketed at this time due to these machines and the division of labor.
Because of this, many employees tend to leave when they have found a job with higher pay. This increases the training costs for their employees, as they tend to not stay for too long.