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‘God Is Protecting Me … And I Have Mace’: Defensive Labour In Precarious Workplaces

Published:2021-09-06 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:0007-0955
Container-title:The British Journal of Criminology
language:en
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Author:

Ladegaard Isak¹^ORCID,Ravenelle Alexandrea J²,Schor Juliet³^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, USA

2. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

3. Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA

Abstract

Abstract Since the 1970s, welfare cuts and market deregulation have made jobs increasingly precarious and workers have been made responsible for their own safety. In this context, technological developments have recently paved the way for the gig economy, in which tasks and services are distributed on digital platforms. Drawing on interviews with 32 Uber and Lyft drivers in New York City and Boston, we document how the intersecting forces of precarity, responsibilization and organizational innovation spawn the need for ‘defensive labour’, that is, emotional and cognitive self-protective practices.

Funder

MacArthur Foundation

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Law,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous),Social Psychology,Pathology and Forensic Medicine

Link

http://academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/bjc/azab080/40634829/azab080.pdf

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