Precarious Work Patterns on Workers’ Perceptions of Family-Level Resources, Cohesion, and Flexibility

Renada M. Goldberg ()
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Renada M. Goldberg: Simmons University

Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2024, vol. 45, issue 1, No 14, 184-199

Abstract: Abstract Research on work insecurity in the US has examined specific precarious work factors such as low wages, nonstandard work hours and scheduling, and inaccessibility to family supportive benefits. Using pilot data from The Prec[ar]ious Family Study, a latent class analysis indicates patterns of precarious work attributes into five disparate groups described as Wagers, Nomads, Underemployed, Schedulers, and Precariat. Regressions using patterned precarious work group membership as a categorical variable reveal differences in family resource accessibility and usage between those who report multiple precarious work factors (Precariat) and those who report a high amount of workplace uncertainty (Nomads) compared to workers with wage as their sole precarious factor (Wagers) after controlling for worker’s self-reported perceptions of stress. Precarious work group differences in family cohesion suggest workers’ decreased perceptions of family emotional connection in the Nomads groups compared to the Wagers. No association was found between workers’ perceptions of their family flexibility and their precarious work class membership which suggests existing family roles and family leadership are resistant to experiences of work precarity. Further research of precariously employed workers is needed to assess the dynamism of precarious work group patterns and extend understanding between precarious work, family-level resources and family cohesion amid experiences of work precarity.

Keywords: Precarious work; Family resources; Family cohesion; Family structure; Latent class analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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