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Drawing from the social study of the gig economy and platform labour and from the sociology of risk, this article explores how on-demand food couriers in Edinburgh, Scotland, construct and represent work-related risks. By taking the gig economy’s contested and contentious status of ‘self-employment’ as a starting point, this article positions couriers as experts of their own work process and draws on in-depth interviews with 25 couriers to illustrate how platformed labour creates a range of risks, including physical risk and bodily harm, financial risks and epistemic risks. To negotiate these risks, couriers use a range of strategies, including privatising, normalising and minimising risks and by forging new communities of support. While some risks can be negotiated by recourse to the private, entrepreneurial, or ‘choosing’ self, interview data illustrate how algorithmically managed work creates uncertainty and confounds the issue of choice by obscuring the work process and associated risk probabilities.
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P20 Service improvement project evaluating the effectiveness of vocational rehabilitation (VR) for patients referred to a UK cardiac rehabilitation (CR) service
BackgroundCR is a cornerstone of secondary prevention following cardiac events, with return-to-work (RTW) a goal for many patients.1 With increasing pressure from government initiatives, (e.g., Restart Scheme, Universal Credit reductions by the Department for Work and Pensions), timely and supported RTW is crucial. Evidence suggests the development of vocational rehabilitation strategies that target both socio-occupational reintegration and employment maintenance.2 AimEvaluate the effectiveness of an embedded VR pathway within a UK CR service, specifically focusing on employment, RTW outcomes, patient-reported confidence and navigation of welfare-to-work policiesMethodsA prospective cohort of working-age patient in CR highlighted employment concerns at their first assessment, were referred to our CR VR service, February - May 2025. Intervention included person centred assessments using the Work ability Support Scale (WSS), measuring patient’s ability to work and used to support RTW planning, psychosocial needs, employer communication, benefits and signposting. An Allied Health Professional Health (AHP) and Work Report, summarising the assessment was completed at patient request.Pre and post-intervention outcomes included patient-reported WSS scores and RTW status. A Wilcoxon Signed Rank test was performed.Results37 patients referred, occupational status in table 1. 4(10.8%) did not respond. Age, mean(SD) =54.6(7.8), gender, male =28(75.7%), ethnicity, white British 27(73.0%). 33(89.2%) engaged, 27(81.8%) completed WSS, 29(88.0%) completed a structured work questionnaire (WQ), 25(75.8%) AHP reports written.Follow-up to date, 20(60.1%) of patients had RTW (full or modified duties). Work functioning improved significantly, with median WSS scores increasing from, md 98.5(IQR=22.00, n=27) pre-intervention to md 109.5(IQR=9.5, n=20) post-intervention (Z= -3.73, P<0.05), with a larger effect size (r=0.83).Abstract P20 Table 1Occupational status on referral to CR service Employment Status (n=37) No. Participants Percentage (%) Employed full time 19 51.4 Employed part time 8 21.6 Self employed full time 3 8.1 Self-employed part time 3 8.1 Unemployed 4 10.8 ConclusionFindings support the inclusion of VR within CR programmes highlight the need for further development in this field to optimise long-term occupational outcomes.Our interventions could be scaled nationally to ensure equitable, health-led employment support. Further research should explore scalability and cost-effectiveness.ReferencesBACPR (2023) The BACPR Standards and Core Components for. Available at: https://www.cardiacrehabilitation.org.uk/site/docs/BACPR-Standards-and-Core-Components-2023.pdf.Soulaidopoulos S, Tsioufis KP. Return to work: the challenge of cardiac rehabilitation in the modern era. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology 2022;30(2):180–181. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjpc/zwac289.
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Independent or Dependent? European Labour Statistics and Their (In)ability to Identify Forms of Dependency in Self-employment
In the studies on labour market change and transformation of employment relations, the growth of new forms of self-employment, including platform work, has raised a broad debate about how to define, classify, and analyse the wide range of positions within the heterogeneous category of self-employed workers. This article analyses the emergent methodologies used in European comparative labour statistics to identify forms of dependency in self-employment. Using the 6th wave of the 2015 European Working Condition Survey and the 2017 ad hoc module on self-employment from the European Labour Force Survey, this article discusses how the representation of dependent self-employment changes by adopting a different operationalization of economic and operational dependency. Findings show how different indicators of dependency change the representation of self-employment in different economic sectors, affecting our understanding of the transformation of working arrangements within self-employment and the boundaries between employment and self-employment.
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Kick some glass : 10 ways women succeed at work on their own terms
\"The rule-smashing guide for motivated working women who want to stop trying to follow someone else's rules and start taking charge of their own success You leaned in like a palm tree in a hurricane. You cracked the confidence code. You're determined not to be a nice girl, but a #GirlBoss. You've learned you can't have it all, but you still try anyway. You know all of this. You've read the books, downloaded the apps, vision boarded and journaled your way to oblivion and back. So why are you stuck in your career? Unlike other books, which seem to focus on fixing you, Kick Some Glass is based on the premise that you are the expert on you -- so who better to uncover what you really want, what your definition of success is, what your values are, and what your goals are than YOU? This invaluable guide will help you do the deep inner work you need to create lasting, meaningful, personal, and professional change. You'll get beneath the surface to understand the mental models that manifest in self-sabotaging behaviors, missed opportunities, and fear. You'll reveal the values that will help you truly understand the tough choices and trade-offs you make daily. You'll learn how to tap into the powerful networks you need to provide support and hold you accountable to help you reach your goals. You'll learn realistic, doable, long-range solutions that will give you the power to take charge and move ahead. This book will help you uncover who you truly are to approach your professional life in ways that are authentic and most meaningful to you -- and no one else. After all, only you hold the answers. It's time to Kick Some Glass\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Self-Employment and Health: Barriers or Benefits?
The self-employed are often reported to be healthier than wageworkers; however, the cause of this health difference is largely unknown. The longitudinal nature of the US Health and Retirement Study allows us to gauge the plausibility of two competing explanations for this difference: a contextual effect of self-employment on health (benefit effect), or a health-related selection of individuals into self-employment (barrier effect). Our main finding is that the selection of comparatively healthier individuals into self-employment accounts for the positive cross-sectional difference. The results rule out a positive contextual effect of self-employment on health, and we present tentative evidence that, if anything, engaging in self-employment is bad for one's health. Given the importance of the self-employed in the economy, these findings contribute to our understanding of the vitality of the labor force. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Grow your value : living and working to your full potential
Examines the enemies of women's success both in the workplace and at home and reveals strategies to overcome them.
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Work engagement among different types of solo self-employed: the mediating role of intrinsic job resources
PurposeThe ideal-typical entrepreneur presents him/herself in the neoliberal iconography as an autonomous and pro-active individual who is highly engaged with his/her vocation. Nevertheless, empirical research on the actual work engagement of the self-employed is scarce. In addition, phenomena like “necessity self-employment” and “economically dependent self-employment” raise concerns about the potential eudaimonic well-being outcomes of these self-employed. In this study, it was therefore investigated to what extent necessity self-employment and economically dependent self-employment are associated to work engagement and whether this relation is mediated by intrinsic job resources.Design/methodology/approachThe authors used data from the 2015 European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) involving 5,463 solo self-employed participants. For analyzing the data, structural equation modeling (SEM) with the Lavaan package was used.FindingsBoth necessity self-employment and economically dependent self-employment were linked to poor work engagement, however, intrinsic job resources mediated both effects.Originality/valueWhile previous studies have shown differences in hedonic well-being between opportunity/necessity entrepreneurs, and economically (in)dependent entrepreneurs, this study considers their distinct profiles regarding eudaimonic well-being. Eudaimonic well-being was deemed particularly relevant because of its implications for other outcomes such as life satisfaction, psychological well-being, ill-health, business performance and persistence in self-employment.
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