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The 8-hour work day isn’t some pure fact, however a results of a protracted bloody battle for labour rights for the reason that Eighteen Eighties. Its achievements embody 2-day weekends, social safety and pensions, and a lot extra. However these achievements are being undermined regardless of the Europe-wide labour scarcity. One of many culprits is the gig economic system mannequin, which guarantees felxibility however actually affords precarity.
Employee’s illustration has been withering up to now few many years worldwide. Previously self-explanatory labour protections have been rolled again throughout Europe, and a few states have legalized baby labour within the US.
The gig economic system has been undermining conventional employment for a very long time, however covid lockdowns exacerbated this. It additionally left billions of people that didn’t have the privilege to work at home, or to work in any respect, to cope with the tragic well being penalties of the virus.
Young people in the EU have been among the many hardest hit populations by the pandemic, experiencing job loss, monetary instability, and psychological well being points. In 2020, the EU witnessed a 2.8% drop in youth employment, and it’s nonetheless recovering. This impact was worst in Portugal, Bulgaria, Latvia, Czechia and Poland. So an rising technology of sceptics are asking the query: what are we even working for?
With the character of labor drastically altering for the reason that pandemic, Gen Z and millennials discover themselves working way more than their fellow boomers in comparable positions, and for a lot much less. One research exhibits that Gen Z are much less more likely to search promotions as a result of they don’t need to work additional time, and are much less more likely to persist with an unssatisfactory office, particularly after they have fewer household obligations than earlier generations did on the identical age.
And the gendered division of labour nonetheless renders ladies underrepresented within the labour market, with care duties unpaid and unrecognized. In 2022, the European Fee offered the European Care Strategy, which guarantees to assist casual carers and impose greater requirements for care staff. In terms of care work, the demographic is commonly migrant ladies, who’re already the best goal of trafficking and labour exploitation. There’s a suffocating scarcity of care staff all throughout Europe, but, migration insurance policies have gotten an increasing number of exclusionary.
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Maryna Tverdostup is an Economist on the Vienna Institute for Worldwide Financial Research (WIIW) and a rustic professional for Estonia. Her analysis pursuits cowl numerous labour market points, together with gender inequalities, labour mobility, and immigrants’ integration.
Péter Csunderlik is a historian, assistant professor on the Eötvös Loránd College in Budapest, and analysis fellow on the Institute of Political Historical past in Budapest. His areas of curiosity embody left-wing radical actions, the reminiscence of the Soviet Republic, and nineteenth to Twentieth-century social histories. He joins us on-line.
Petra Hlaváčková is a Milena Jesenská journalism Fellow on the Institute for Human Sciences right here in Vienna, researching the paradoxical liberation of girls underneath socialism via the examples of feminine architects in Czechoslovakia.
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Marlena Stolze, video recording
Clemens Schmiedbauer, video recording
Richard Brusek, sound recording
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Nóra Ruszkai, video editor
István Nagy, publish manufacturing
Artwork
Victor Maria Lima, animation
Cornelia Frischauf, theme music
Captions and subtitles
Julia Sobota, Daniela Univazo, Mars Zaslavsky, Marta Ferdebar, Olena Yermakova, Farah Ayyash
This speak present is a Display Europe manufacturing: a content material sharing platform providing content material on politics, tradition, neighborhood, and way more.
Disclaimer
This programme is co-funded by the Inventive Europe Programme of the European Union and the European Cultural Basis.
Importantly, Views and opinions expressed are nevertheless these of the writer(s) solely and don’t essentially replicate these of the European Union or the European Schooling and Tradition Government Company (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA will be held liable for them.
Our episodes are additionally accessible as a podcast on the Cultural Broadcasting Archive! Hear here.
The 8-hour work day isn’t some pure fact, however a results of a protracted bloody battle for labour rights for the reason that Eighteen Eighties. Its achievements embody 2-day weekends, social safety and pensions, and a lot extra. However these achievements are being undermined regardless of the Europe-wide labour scarcity. One of many culprits is the gig economic system mannequin, which guarantees felxibility however actually affords precarity.
Employee’s illustration has been withering up to now few many years worldwide. Previously self-explanatory labour protections have been rolled again throughout Europe, and a few states have legalized baby labour within the US.
The gig economic system has been undermining conventional employment for a very long time, however covid lockdowns exacerbated this. It additionally left billions of people that didn’t have the privilege to work at home, or to work in any respect, to cope with the tragic well being penalties of the virus.
Young people in the EU have been among the many hardest hit populations by the pandemic, experiencing job loss, monetary instability, and psychological well being points. In 2020, the EU witnessed a 2.8% drop in youth employment, and it’s nonetheless recovering. This impact was worst in Portugal, Bulgaria, Latvia, Czechia and Poland. So an rising technology of sceptics are asking the query: what are we even working for?
With the character of labor drastically altering for the reason that pandemic, Gen Z and millennials discover themselves working way more than their fellow boomers in comparable positions, and for a lot much less. One research exhibits that Gen Z are much less more likely to search promotions as a result of they don’t need to work additional time, and are much less more likely to persist with an unssatisfactory office, particularly after they have fewer household obligations than earlier generations did on the identical age.
And the gendered division of labour nonetheless renders ladies underrepresented within the labour market, with care duties unpaid and unrecognized. In 2022, the European Fee offered the European Care Strategy, which guarantees to assist casual carers and impose greater requirements for care staff. In terms of care work, the demographic is commonly migrant ladies, who’re already the best goal of trafficking and labour exploitation. There’s a suffocating scarcity of care staff all throughout Europe, but, migration insurance policies have gotten an increasing number of exclusionary.
We thank the IWM Library for internet hosting the dialogue!
Company
Maryna Tverdostup is an Economist on the Vienna Institute for Worldwide Financial Research (WIIW) and a rustic professional for Estonia. Her analysis pursuits cowl numerous labour market points, together with gender inequalities, labour mobility, and immigrants’ integration.
Péter Csunderlik is a historian, assistant professor on the Eötvös Loránd College in Budapest, and analysis fellow on the Institute of Political Historical past in Budapest. His areas of curiosity embody left-wing radical actions, the reminiscence of the Soviet Republic, and nineteenth to Twentieth-century social histories. He joins us on-line.
Petra Hlaváčková is a Milena Jesenská journalism Fellow on the Institute for Human Sciences right here in Vienna, researching the paradoxical liberation of girls underneath socialism via the examples of feminine architects in Czechoslovakia.
Inventive workforce
Réka Kinga Papp, editor-in-chief
Merve Akyel, artwork director
Szilvia Pintér, producer
Zsófia Gabriella Papp, digita producer
Salma Shaka, writer-editor
Priyanka Hutschenreiter, undertaking assistant
Administration
Hermann Riessner, managing director
Judit Csikós, undertaking supervisor
Csilla Nagyné Kardos, workplace administration
OKTO Crew
Senad Hergić, producer
Leah Hochedlinger, video recording
Marlena Stolze, video recording
Clemens Schmiedbauer, video recording
Richard Brusek, sound recording
Postproduction
Milan Golovics, dialogue editor
Nóra Ruszkai, video editor
István Nagy, publish manufacturing
Artwork
Victor Maria Lima, animation
Cornelia Frischauf, theme music
Captions and subtitles
Julia Sobota, Daniela Univazo, Mars Zaslavsky, Marta Ferdebar, Olena Yermakova, Farah Ayyash
This speak present is a Display Europe manufacturing: a content material sharing platform providing content material on politics, tradition, neighborhood, and way more.
Disclaimer
This programme is co-funded by the Inventive Europe Programme of the European Union and the European Cultural Basis.
Importantly, Views and opinions expressed are nevertheless these of the writer(s) solely and don’t essentially replicate these of the European Union or the European Schooling and Tradition Government Company (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA will be held liable for them.