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6. Responses to Vulnerability: The Example of Job Sharing

Employee Relations

ISSN: 0142-5455

Article publication date: 1 May 1987

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Abstract

The foregoing sections have demonstrated and analysed the range and complexity of vulnerability in the labour market. Its source can be economic or legal, or can derive from characteristics of work or workers. Vulnerability is not a stagnant or even declining phenomenon. Indeed, we have argued that not only are considerably more workers disadvantaged than, say, two decades ago, but that such a situation is compounded by government policy, concepts of core and peripheral workers, and by forces which have created or highlighted unconsidered or new areas of vulnerability. It is arguable that even the much publicised “networkers” who may have relatively attractive terms of work can become isolated and demoralised by working solely at home, and thus suffer yet another form of vulnerability.

Citation

Leighton, P. (1987), "6. Responses to Vulnerability: The Example of Job Sharing", Employee Relations, Vol. 9 No. 5, pp. 49-59. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb055108

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MCB UP Ltd

Copyright © 1987, MCB UP Limited

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