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Precarity In The Nonprofit Employment Services Sector, Carlo Fanelli, Debbie Rudman, Rebecca Aldrich
Precarity In The Nonprofit Employment Services Sector, Carlo Fanelli, Debbie Rudman, Rebecca Aldrich
Occupational Therapy Publications
Drawing on interview and focus group data, this article explores research undertaken as part of a larger research project exploring precarity in the nonprofit employment services sector in a mid-sized Canadian city. We critically survey major legislative changes to Canadian employment and income security policies and programs, including the restructuring of work and labor relations, growth of performance-based contracting-out, erosion of intergovernmental transfers, worker stress, and emotional tolls. Our study’s results demonstrate how employment precarity in the nonprofit employment services sector is amplified by top-down and centralized relationships with funding partners and policymaking divorced from the employment experiences of frontline …