This special issue of Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations presents articles based on original research on fundamental changes to work and work arrangements that undermine workers’ health and safety, exacerbate health inequalities and pose major challenges to those who want to resist a 'race to the bottom' in working conditions and imagine and promote regulatory reforms to better prot...

Scholarly debates over precarity are gaining unprecedented visibility across fields. From labor insecurity forming a growing dangerous class to the existential condition of vulnerability induced by millennial capitalism, has become an object both empirical study and theoretical reflection. While European social movements have been organizing writing about from late 1970s today, still, US perspe...

Towns in the Karoo region currently offer few income‑generating opportunities, resulting people seeking informal waste‑picking opportunities on streets and landfills. This article aims to investigate level of precariousness waste pickers context towns comparison with rest South Africa using Sen’s capability approach. A cross‑sectional research design was used, interviewing 75 landfill 23 street...

The European Society for Occupational Medicine notes that numerous differences exist between EU members regarding their policies associated with occupational health and safety; one of the reasons for this is the historical variety of approaches. If we wish to unify our occupational health and safety systems, we thus need a common, unified policy and a common European training programme. The key...

OBJECTIVES Changes in employment contracts may impact the quality of working life, job insecurity, health and work-related attitudes. We examined the validity of two partly competing theoretical approaches. Based upon a segmentation approach, we expected no change in scores among stable trajectories, whereas upward trajectories were expected to be for the better and downward trajectories to be ...