Job Quality Complexities

Leanne Roncolato () and John Willoughby

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2017, vol. 49, issue 1, 30-53

Abstract: This paper draws on feminist and Marxist traditions to develop a framework for analyzing job quality, which incorporates context, social relations, and power. Job quality among small business owners in low-income communities surrounding Cape Town, South Africa is analyzed using data from semi-structured, time-intensive interviews. The results reveal a complicated story of self-employment being a means of expressing creativity, forming identity and community, while simultaneously being characterized by insecurity and harsh constraints.

Keywords: job quality; Marx; feminist; self-employment; South Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B5 J4 O1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1177/0486613415621751

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