Abstract This article describes how discourses of professionalism, insecurity, and exploitation among English as a second language/English for Academic Purposes (hereinafter ESL/EAP) instructors curriculum‐level administrators at two Canadian universities relate to their understanding fair work. These understandings are examined in nested manner, keeping with social positioning theory. Via disc...

Single motherhood has been well documented to have adverse impacts on financial wellbeing and they are prone fall into poverty trap. In Malaysia, the term single mother generally refers widowed divorced mothers. Income earned from employment is one of main sources livelihood for mothers, which sometimes supplemented by child support other transfers such as pension, welfare assistance, tithe (za...

The fragility of employers' voluntary, business-case-based improvements to employment standards for front-line hourly paid staff is revealed in two organisational case studies from the art and care sectors. For different reasons, Covid provided a catalyst employers enact passive active exit strategies that made work more precarious.