HTHSCI 2RR3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: W. M. Keck Observatory, Working Poor, Precarious Work
23 Oct 2015
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Knowledge economy: careers related to the development of projects" (i. e. consultant, project management, and coordinator), work in several jobs over the course of a lifetime, creates boundaryless careers vs. vertical ladder careers; not bound to institution, geography, job etc. , not bound to an institution, go set up an mri scan in alberta but based out of hamilton, now climbing a horizontal ladder instead of a vertical ladder. What is the difference: boundaryless career; represents mobile work, communities of practice, networks and virtual, taditional career; represents industrial work, one stop shop, first and last job, climbing the vertical communities of practice ladder, they are more flexible in jobs and self employments results in, false sense of self employment (dependant, precarious work (lack of stability, permanence and/or benefits) *lowest amounts of poverty, never knows how many hours will get*, new classifications of employment status (casual, contract, temporary, reduced time, part time, etc. , makes us question what is actually an active" labour force.
