week 9

• non standard work examples: temporary and contract work, self-emplyment, gig work
• precarious work: non-standard employment that is poorly paid, insesure, unprotectied, and typically cannot support a household
• a flexible work arrangement includes:


  1. flexibility in the scheduling of hours worked, such as alternative work schedules and, arrangments regarding shift and break schedules
  2. flexibily in the amounf of hours worked, such as part time work and job shares
  3. flexibility in the place of work, such as working at home or at a satelite location
• underground economy: unrecorded and untaxed economic exchanges; illegal trade in goods or services
• white collar crime: crime commited in employment or other commercial situations for economic gain
• domestic labour: the tasks involved with running a household, includng housework, home maintenance, childcare, and consumption work
• volunteer work: work we do for free that contributes to our neighbourhoods and communities
• productive leisure: enganging in hobbies that involve work (paid or unpaid)
• prosumption: the performance of both production and consumption, which is increasingly occurring simultaneously (ritzer, 2015)
• service economy: an economy where the primary aconomic activity is the provision of services rather than the production of goods
• deindustrialization: the shift from a goods- to a service based economy
• knowledge occupations: occupations where a high proportion of workers have a university education
• social network: a bounded set of individuals linked by the exchange of material or emotional resources