CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Gergorić, Maja |
|---|---|
| Title | How is Precarious Work Gendered? The Case of Croatian Active Labour Market Policy |
| Summary | Work traineeship policy (or in its full name on-the-job training without work contract), as a part of active labour market policies, has been introduced in Croatia in 2012 as a way to lower the rising youth unemployment. The aim of this thesis is to show who the users of this policy are and what kind of social consequences the policy has for the work trainees. My main argument is that the work traineeship policy is a type of precarious work that creates underpaid, exploitative positions for the users of the policy. I will show that the users are mostly young women who have higher education with a background in social sciences and humanities. I will support my main argument with a nuanced analysis of precarious characteristic in different types of work traineeships. I will show how characteristics of precarious work vary in intensity across the public and private sector, and informal traineeships. I will show what the latter traineeship is highly precarious on the one hand, and on the other the trainees in those traineeships are more critical towards the policy. Additionally, I will show that the policy reproduces inequalities in social statuses and education amongst young women, prolongs the already long period of youth and creates gendered access to paid labour. I am using the concept of precarious work to analyse the larger changes on the Croatian labour market and show what the possible short- and long-term consequences of the policy might be. I am also complementing the findings of this research by comparing the situation in Croatia with that of the European Union traineeships. |
| Supervisor | Fodor, Eva |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/gergoric_maja.pdf |
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