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.