SSSP 2024 Annual Meeting

Date: Friday, August 9

Time: 2:30 PM - 4:10 PM

Session 026: Contingent/Precarious Work
Room: Kafka

Sponsor: Labor Studies

Organizers: Jacqueline M. Zalewski, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Seth Kahn, West Chester University of Pennsylvania

Presider: Jacqueline M. Zalewski, West Chester University of Pennsylvania

Discussant: Seth Kahn, West Chester University of Pennsylvania

Description: 

This session examines contingent and precarious work across a range of sites (human services; Amazon; sex work; multi-level marketing) and situates the conditions of precarity/contingency among a complex array of analytical schemes: late-stage neoliberal capital; professionalism and white-collar self-perception; global supply chains; and more.

Papers:

“Amazon, Global Supply Chains -- and Gig and Contingent Labor,” David A. Smith, University of California, Irvine

“Double Disadvantage? Nonstandard Work Forms and Job Quality in the US, 2002-2018,” Jeffrey C. Dixon, College of the Holy Cross and Andrew S. Fullerton, Oklahoma State University

“Privileged and Unprivileged Precarity: Multi-level Marketing as a Site of Non-standard Work in the New Economy,” Nicole Cochran, Temple University

“Risky Business: Sex Work as Precarious Work,” Quinn Maya Kinzer, University of Wisconsin-Madison