This study explores the
organization of work and occupational health risk as elicited from recently
immigrated women (n = 8) who have been in the US for less than three years and
employed in informal work sectors such as cleaning and factory work in the
greater Boston area in Massachusetts. Additional interviews (n = 8) with
Community Key Informants with knowledge of this sector and representatives of
temporary employment agencies in the area provides further context to the
interviews conducted with recent immigrant women.
These results were also compared
with our immigrant occupational health survey, a large project that spawned
this study. Responses from the study participants suggest health outcomes
consistent with being a day-laborer scholarship, new immigrant women are
especially at higher risk within these low wage informal work sectors. A
difference in health experiences based on ethnicity and occupation was also
observed.
Low skilled temporary jobs are fashioned around meeting the job
performance expectations of the employer; the worker’s needs are hardly
addressed, resulting in low work standards, little worker protection and poor
health outcomes. The rising prevalence of non-standard employment or informal
labor sector requires that policies or labor market legislation be revised to
meet the needs presented by these marginalized workers.
Below: Framework of coding structures, which reflect the work-related experiences and health of immigrant women in informal work sectors
Full article at: http://goo.gl/PLiZ9m
By:
Bindu Panikkar
Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources,
University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States of America
Doug Brugge, Raymond R. Hyatt
Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts
University, Boston, MA, United States of America
David M. Gute
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts
University, Medford, MA, United States of America
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