Abstract
The literature focusing on young people’s negotiations of precarious employment has tended to split between material and symbolic resources and has mainly stressed coping mechanisms, which support young people’s ability to persist in precariousness at work as opposed to resisting precariousness and demanding change. Analysing interviews with 20 socially marginalised young women working in the Israeli service and care sector we could validate earlier scholarly emphasis on those resources which build young people’s capacity to bear precarious employment. These were topped; however, by young women’s knowledge of workers’ rights and labour law which we interpreted as a symbolic resource building self-advocacy and the capacity to demand change.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 17-34 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Journal of Youth Studies |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2024 |
Bibliographical note
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Funding
The research was funded by The Israeli National Insurance Institute; The Ministry of Welfare and Social Service - Yated Program for Young Adults at risk; Naamat - Israeli Working Women's Association; Research Excellence Fund, Bar-Ilan University. The authors would like to thank Dr. Michal Komem, Prof. Ori Schwartz and the PhD. group at The Department of Sociology and Anthropology in Bar-Ilan University - Netta Feldman, Yael Segev, Sari Alfi-Nissan, Rona Ziv Tjoerneland, Dalia Perez, Liat Sheffer, Hadas Nur and Merav Ben Hillel for their insightful comments on earlier versions of this manuscript.
| Funders | Funder number |
|---|---|
| Israeli Working Women's Association | |
| Ministry of Welfare and Social Service | |
| Research Excellence Fund, Bar-Ilan University | |
| Rona Ziv Tjoerneland | |
| Israel National Insurance Institute |
Keywords
- Young women
- employment
- material and symbolic resources
- precarious employment
- social marginalisation
