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September 15, 2026Labor History

The politics of unpaid labour: how the study of unpaid labour can help address inequality in precarious work

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MZMiaomiao Zhang

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Conceptual analysis reveals how unpaid labour drives inequality across precarious employment, highlighting structural policy gaps in contemporary labour markets.

Key Points

  • To analyze how uncompensated labour practices shape socioeconomic inequalities and sustain precarious employment arrangements.
  • Critical review and theoretical synthesis of contemporary political economy frameworks addressing precarious work and unpaid tasks.
  • Conceptual examination of institutional labour mechanisms that normalize non-wage activities within insecure employment models.
  • Uncompensated tasks fundamentally subsidize precarious business models by transferring operational risks and costs directly onto workers.
  • Excluding non-wage activities from standard regulatory definitions systematically masks deep structural inequalities in precarious employment.

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Miaomiao Zhang (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aa913f39013453be30a256fhttps://doi.org/10.1080/0023656x.2026.2733511
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