Glossary entry

Portuguese term or phrase:

precarização

English translation:

destabilization

Added to glossary by Barbara Cochran, MFA
Feb 10, 2018 13:15
6 yrs ago
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Portuguese term

precarização

Portuguese to English Social Sciences Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.
The context is "precarização do trabalho"/"precarização das relações de trabalho". The sort of thing that's happening with AirBnB and Uber.
Would appreciate suggestions.
What I have come up with so far:
- job insecurity (although this wouldn't be the process and so wouldn't capture the "...ação" part of the Portuguese word)
- increasing job insecurity
- fragmentation of labor relations
As the word crops up on its own frequently in the text, the shorter and pithier the translation, the better.
Tks. in advance.
Change log

Feb 15, 2018 11:11: Barbara Cochran, MFA Created KOG entry

Discussion

Colin Bowles (asker) Feb 11, 2018:
Tks Nick. I hadn't thought of that one. It certainly works, although there aren't as many hits as I would expect in Google.
T o b i a s Feb 10, 2018:
Uber/AirBnB If there's one thing these companies have never purported to offer, it's a scintilla of stability.
Nick Taylor Feb 10, 2018:
@Colin You can scratch my answer and use this one which is correct. job destabilisation
Colin Bowles (asker) Feb 10, 2018:
And, yes, "job instability" seems to be the term widely used in EU documents, although it still doesn't refer to the process... :D
Colin Bowles (asker) Feb 10, 2018:
Exatamente Teresa...por isso perguntei. Porque não consigo atinar com uma tradução exata do PROCESSO (isto é, a precarização)...
@Nick A precariedade é uma consequência da precarização...
Nick Taylor Feb 10, 2018:
@Colin The usual term employed (no pun intended) in Pt is in fact "precariedade"

Proposed translations

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destabilization

Maybe.
Note from asker:
TKs to all for the contributions. I will go with this one, but I think some of the others would work fine too.
Peer comment(s):

agree Nick Taylor : Not maybe. 100% correct!https://www.reddit.com/user/Zingerliscious/
7 hrs
Thanks, Nick.
agree Sid Ralph (X)
15 hrs
Thank you, Sid.
agree Jessie LN
1 day 21 hrs
Thank you, Jessie.
agree Lais Leite
3 days 1 hr
Thank you, padua.
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12 mins

deterioration

Peer comment(s):

agree T o b i a s
9 hrs
Thanks Toby :)
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21 mins

instability

Sugg.
Insiste em mais flexibilidade salarial e dos mercados de trabalho, o que contribui para a contenção salarial e precarização do trabalho. Quer maior flexibilidade do mercado de produtos, nomeadamente continuando a via da privatização, da liberalização e desregulamentação dos mercados. Daí o nosso voto contra.
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//...

The report insists on greater flexibility in pay and in the labour market, which contributes to pay disputes and to job instability. It wishes to see greater flexibility in the products market, in particular by pursuing the approach of privatising, liberalising and deregulating the markets. Hence our vote against the report.
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//...
Peer comment(s):

agree Claudio Mazotti
50 mins
Obrigada, Claudio!
agree Nuno Rosalino
2 hrs
Obrigada, Nuno!
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1 hr

JOB INSECURITY

JOB INSECURITY
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9 hrs

increasing precariousness

Theory and empirics might also usefully focus on the different aspects of the ‘personal networks’ that now represent the contemporary institution supporting agglomeration (Duranton, 2001) and the creeping informality found in the global north as a result of the increasing precariousness of employment and the ‘gig economy’.
https://www.gceg2018.com/fileadmin/GCEG2018/PDF/GCEG2018_Lis...

The sharing economy is thus thought to contribut to the increasing “precariousness” of labor, a term widely associated with autonomist Marxist thought ( a strain of Marxism developed in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s), which describes the fragmentation and discontinutiy of workd relations and experiences in contemporary capitalsim.
Antisocial Media: Anxious Labor in the Digital Economy
By Greg Goldberg pp 123-124

Technological utopians celebrate the transformation of traditional workers into micro-entrepreneurs, free to work whenever and for as long as they want in proportion to their preferences for income and leisure, while critics see a degradation of the standard employment relation and higher levels of precariousness and labour market vulnerability.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3012558
For decades, the increasing precariousness of work has been a source of mass frustration for tens of millions of Americans. But the issue has been largely below the political radar.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-kuttner/lousy-work-wil...




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Note added at 9 hrs (2018-02-10 22:36:58 GMT)
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Also possible:

"erosion of labor standards"

https://goo.gl/tp46eQ
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10 hrs

job jeopardizing (the jeopardization of jobs)

see the Definition of Jeopardize by Merriam-Webster; irrespective of what it says, the word has come to mean the act of putting oneself or something at risk.

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Note added at 11 Stunden (2018-02-11 00:22:30 GMT)
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In addition, let me suggest to consult some of the great number of links using the the term PRECARIZATION. Precarization of work and at work are frequently used and I could imagine this term to correspond this work even better than jeopardization or the other suggestions hitherto submitted.
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