Beek, Ineke van (2024) Do workers sacrifice job stability for self-fulfilment through passion and autonomy? Bachelor thesis, Sociology.
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Abstract
As less and less people within Europe are working with full-time non-fixed contracts, more people are finding themselves in poorer, precarious jobs. These jobs offer little financial or employment security. To research how people end up with these precarious jobs, I developed a model integrating intrinsic values as drivers to accept precarious jobs and trade unions as organisations reducing the precariousness of jobs offered by employers. People would sacrifice job stability to achieve passion and or autonomy. Trade unions would prevent people from doing so, by protecting intrinsically motivated workers from the labour market. I analysed the chance for someone to experience job insecurity among active workers aged 16 or older across Europe. By using the 2021 wave of the European Working Conditions Survey held across 36 countries, I performed a binary logistic regression on a sample of 20655 workers. I conclude that the more passionate or more autonomous workers are, the less likely they expect to lose their job within six months. Also, workers covered by a trade union more often believe they will not lose their job than those workers without trade unions. As passion and autonomy do not lead to precarious work, trade unions do not protect workers from their intrinsic work values. Furthermore, the model could not sufficiently label job insecure workers as such, meaning the variables used are possibly not good predictors of job insecurity. The question of which predictors would be sufficient remains. These results direct future research on the experience of job insecurity towards the true availability of choice workers have access to. I also recommend further research into the development of precarious work within the lives of workers and its effect on well-being.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Marceta, P. |
| Degree programme: | Sociology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Sociology] |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Jul 2024 13:32 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Jul 2024 13:32 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/4070 |
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