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‘I’ve got to do this. I have no choice’: The contradictory role of social reproduction in explaining the impact of precarious dependent self-employment

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Economic and Industrial Democracy: An International Journal

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Abstract

Economic and Industrial Democracy, Volume 47, Issue 2, Page 310-330, May 2026.
Within a qualitative research strategy this article applies the ‘grey zone’ framework, which conceptualises dimensions of unpaid labour tolerated by workers competing for precarious work. The authors present an empirical investigation that foregrounds ...