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DOI | 10.1111/1468-2427.12774 |
Reconceptualizing Informal Work Practices: Some Observations from an Ethnic Minority Community in Urban UK | |
Rodgers, Peter1; Shahid, Muhammad Shehryar2; Williams, Colin C.3 | |
2019-05-01 | |
发表期刊 | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH
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ISSN | 0309-1317 |
EISSN | 1468-2427 |
出版年 | 2019 |
卷号 | 43期号:3页码:476-496 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | England; Pakistan |
英文摘要 | Whilst paid informal work has been conceptualized as a form of paid employment imbued with solely economic motivations, this article critically argues that such a market--oriented reading fails to take into account alternative explanations for the existence of informal work practices. Using evidence from 50 interviews conducted within a Pakistani urban community in a northern UK city, this article, uses a mixed-embeddedness perspective to highlight the importance of predominantly socially and culturally driven motives in the decision to engage in informal work. The findings highlight that participation in informal work, whilst a product of marginalization due to certain institutional and structural factors, is also driven by a range of non-monetary motives-a result of certain socially embedded work relations between ethnic minority workers and their employers. It is this social embeddedness of the employer-employee relationship in the Pakistani ethnic minority community that explains the continuation of informal work practices in the face of prevailing laws and regulations. The findings add weight to the understanding of informal work as being about more than just economics and constraints, offering these ethnic minority workers opportunities, even status, and giving them agency in an otherwise disempowered situation. |
英文关键词 | informal work mixed-embeddedness theory ethnic minority UK |
领域 | 资源环境 |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; SSCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000467571200005 |
WOS关键词 | ECONOMY ; EMPLOYMENT ; EMBEDDEDNESS ; BUSINESSES ; ENTERPRISE ; NETWORKS ; MOBILITY ; FIRMS ; CITY |
WOS类目 | Geography ; Regional & Urban Planning ; Urban Studies |
WOS研究方向 | Geography ; Public Administration ; Urban Studies |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/182967 |
专题 | 资源环境科学 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Leicester, Sch Business, Univ Rd, Leicester LE1 7RH, Leics, England; 2.Lahore Univ Management Sci, Suleman Dawood Sch Business, Sect U, Lahore 54792, Pakistan; 3.Univ Sheffield, Sheffield Univ Management Sch, Conduit Rd, Sheffield S10 1FL, S Yorkshire, England |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Rodgers, Peter,Shahid, Muhammad Shehryar,Williams, Colin C.. Reconceptualizing Informal Work Practices: Some Observations from an Ethnic Minority Community in Urban UK[J]. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH,2019,43(3):476-496. |
APA | Rodgers, Peter,Shahid, Muhammad Shehryar,&Williams, Colin C..(2019).Reconceptualizing Informal Work Practices: Some Observations from an Ethnic Minority Community in Urban UK.INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH,43(3),476-496. |
MLA | Rodgers, Peter,et al."Reconceptualizing Informal Work Practices: Some Observations from an Ethnic Minority Community in Urban UK".INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH 43.3(2019):476-496. |
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