2018 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Non-standard(Dependent self-employed) Work in Professional Organizations and Workplace Conflict
| Project/Area Number |
18K12834
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| Research Institution | Saitama University |
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Principal Investigator |
Noh SungChul 埼玉大学, 研究機構, 助教 (90758492)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2018-04-01 – 2020-03-31
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| Keywords | Work precarity / Non-standard employment / Organizing / Labor movement / Creative workers |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
I have managed to publish four journal articles based on the preliminary data analysis. Three manuscripts are under review in prominent scholarly journals.
My colleagues and I also presented the preliminary findings at the international conference such as Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics and European Group for Organizational Studies, where we could have constructive feedbacks for my project
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
1: Research has progressed more than it was originally planned.
Reason
During the first year of the two-year research period, I focused on collecting data via interviews with professional workers under non-standard work arrangement across occupations including independent producers, broadcasting writers and SW developers. I have also done the preliminary data analysis of the interviews and the outcomes of the analysis were published in several scholarly journals.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
A finer grained analysis of interview data will be made for the second year of the research period. Based on the analysis, I am aiming at building a theoretical framework for the relationship between professional identity, work precarity and skill formation. In addition, I shed light on the recent trend towards organizing and collective action among professionals. Especially, the focus will be on independent producers and broadcasting writers in Korea who have organized a trade union lately, which is rare given their employment status of an independent contractor. I firmly believe that my exploration of precarious professional workers will contribute to the on-going theoretical debates around work precarity and the ways to reduce it.
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