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A case of employers never letting a good crisis go to waste? An investigation of how work becomes even more precarious for hourly paid workers under Covid

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  • Eva Herman
  • Jill Rubery
  • Gail Hebson

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The fragility of employers' voluntary, business‐case‐based improvements to employment standards for front‐line hourly paid staff is revealed in two organisational case studies from the art and care sectors. For different reasons, Covid provided a catalyst for employers to enact passive and active exit strategies that made work more precarious.

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  • Eva Herman & Jill Rubery & Gail Hebson, 2021. "A case of employers never letting a good crisis go to waste? An investigation of how work becomes even more precarious for hourly paid workers under Covid," Industrial Relations Journal, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 52(5), pages 442-457, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:indrel:v:52:y:2021:i:5:p:442-457
    DOI: 10.1111/irj.12344
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