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Professional Workers in a Risk Society
Author(s) -
Ekinsmyth Carol
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
transactions of the institute of british geographers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.196
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1475-5661
pISSN - 0020-2754
DOI - 10.1111/j.0020-2754.1999.00353.x
Subject(s) - risk society , negotiation , scope (computer science) , sociology , public relations , political science , social science , computer science , programming language
This paper contributes to the debate on the utility of Ulrich Beck's (1992) notion of the ‘risk society’ for understanding the positions and experiences of workers who are negotiating more ‘flexible’ employment contracts. Whilst previous articles in this journal have concentrated upon the lower end of the employment market, I aim to broaden the scope of the discussion by focussing upon professional freelance magazine workers, and ask whether Beck's framework has a different utility in terms of understanding their employment security and risk. 1