We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Highly Skilled Workers and Employment Risks: Role of Institutions.
- Authors
D’Amours, Martine; Legault, Marie-Josée
- Abstract
This paper analyzes the construction of risk and its effects on three groups of highly skilled professionals doing project work (video game designers, freelance journalists, and performing artists). Our results reveal that high qualifications are not a universal protective factor in the risk society. They suggest, rather, that the political economy of the various markets in which knowledge workers offer their services, as well as the institutions that structure these markets—or do not—is at least as important in determining the fate that awaits them when they are old or sick and that these other factors help create, among these highly skilled workers, a variety of risk societies.
- Subjects
QUEBEC (Province); SKILLED labor; RISK society; SKILLED labor supply &; demand; VIDEO game industry; FREELANCE journalism; JOURNALISTS; ENTERTAINERS; KNOWLEDGE workers; LABOR laws; INFORMATION economy; EMPLOYMENT; EMPLOYEES; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Labor Studies Journal, 2013, Vol 38, Issue 2, p89
- ISSN
0160-449X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0160449X13495920