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Regulating Work, Constructing Workers

In: Individualising Risk

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  • Fiona Macdonald

    (RMIT University)

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Many gaps and deficiencies in standards and protections in Australia’s employment regulation reflect and reinforce historically strong gendered norms including a male breadwinner model. Compared with full-time jobs, part-time and casual forms of employment, in which women predominate, offer fewer benefits and less protection from employment risks and insecurities. Gendered undervaluation has been a long-standing problem in feminised social care work, affecting both pay and working conditions. In the new individualised cash-for-care scheme established by the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), deficiencies and gaps in labour laws and other labour market regulations affecting workers’ rights provide significant opportunity for Australia’s feminised social care workforce to be re-shaped, either as a low-paid and highly insecure independent contractor workforce or as an informalised workforce undertaking ‘private’ work on the margins of effective employment regulation and governed by domestic and familial relations.

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  • Fiona Macdonald, 2021. "Regulating Work, Constructing Workers," Springer Books, in: Individualising Risk, chapter 0, pages 91-109, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-33-6366-3_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-33-6366-3_5
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