McGann, Michael and Whie, Kevin and Moss, Jeremy (2016) Labour casualization and the psychosocial health of workers in Australia. Work, Employment and Society, 30 (5). pp. 766-782. ISSN 0950-0170

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This article presents the results of a qualitative study of 72 workers in regional Victoria, Australia. Against the background of the growing casualization of the workforce it demonstrates the impact on the health and well-being of these workers, focusing on the intersection between psychosocial working conditions and health. In particular it focuses on the detrimental impact on workers’ sense of self-efficacy and self-esteem. It emphasizes how the job insecurity characteristic of non-standard work extends beyond the fear of job loss to involve uncertainty over the scheduling of work, with debilitating consequences for workers’ autonomy, self-efficacy and control over their lives. Additionally, it is argued that the exclusion of these workers from paid leave and other entitlements in the workplace confers a lower social status on these workers that is corrosive of their self-esteem. It is these key socio-psychological mechanisms that provide the link between insecure work and workers’ health.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Cite as: McGann, M., White, K., & Moss, J. (2016). Labour casualization and the psychosocial health of workers in Australia. Work, Employment and Society, 30(5), 766–782. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017016633022
Keywords:	Australia; health; psychosocial; rural; work;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute, MUSSI Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology
Item ID:	13030
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017016633022
Depositing User:	Michael McGann
Date Deposited:	04 Jun 2020 16:51
Journal or Publication Title:	Work, Employment and Society
Publisher:	Sage Publications
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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