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precarious work

non-standard employment poorly paid, insecure, unprotected, and cannot support a household
Class type of: employment Q17009677

Facts

6 properties
Subclass of
employment
Facet of
shadow economy[3]
Different from
shadow economy[5]
Has cause
precarazation[2]
Has effect
precariat[4]
Studied by
sociology of work[6]
🏷️ Also known as
en precarious work en work insecurity en precarious employment cs prekérní zaměstnání de Prekäre Arbeit es precariedad laboral es trabajo precario fa کار پرخطر fr travail précaire it lavoro precario it precarietà lavorativa ko 불안정 노동 pt precarização do trabalho pt trabalho precário ro locuri de muncă precare ro muncă precară zh 不稳定的工作
🔖 Identifiers · 18
Library of Congress Authorities ID
sh2009008937
OpenAlex ID
C2775906418
Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID
92861
BNCF Thesaurus ID
20347
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
11951206r
Freebase ID
/m/02qb6jx
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/11jfgvdyzg
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
precarietat-laboral
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0276292
ILO Thesaurus ID
-1134031657
INAPP Thesaurus ID
2167
J9U entity ID
987007516756505171
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Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2775906418, 2911089958
NL CR AUT ID
ph1093082
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID
XX5307787
SVKKL authority ID
0411652-prekerni-zamestnani
Vikidia article ID
fr:Emploi_précaire
Yale LUX ID
concept/f22af154-c7dd-424a-b032-ff3dee0a9e4e

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🔗 Connections
Belongs to 1
informal economy
Different from 1
shadow economy
Examples 1
ghost work
Facet of 1
shadow economy
Has effect 1
precariat
Studied by 1
sociology of work
Subclass of 1
employment
← Different from 1
shadow economy
← Has cause 1
precariat
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Summary

precarious work is a type of employment[1].

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  1. [1] ↑ . ILO Thesaurus. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  1. 22w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → 0411652-prekerni-zamestnani
    "Created claim: SVKKL authority ID: 0411652-prekerni-zamestnani, batch #259493"
  2. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → employment
    Studied by → sociology of work
    Has effect → precariat
    Different from → shadow economy
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed claim qualifiers: J9U entity ID: 987007516756505171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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