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dc.contributor.authorDixon, Jane
dc.contributor.authorWodman, Dan
dc.contributor.authorStrazdins, Lyndall
dc.contributor.authorBanwell, Cathy
dc.contributor.authorBroom, Dorothy
dc.contributor.authorBurgess, John
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T12:18:25Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T12:18:25Z
dc.date.created2014-03-09T20:00:39Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.citationDixon, Jane and Wodman, Dan and Strazdins, Lyndall and Banwell, Cathy and Broom, Dorothy and Burgess, John. 2014. Flexible Employment, Flexible Eating and Health Risks. Critical Public Health. 24 (4): pp. 461-475.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/20287
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/09581596.2013.852162
dc.description.abstract

Over the last 30 years, the risks to public health from working conditions have subtly shifted in line with new economic regimes, notably the shift towards contractualist, individualised market driven and ‘flexible’ regulation of employment associated with the neo-liberal project. Yet, the resulting transformation in temporal schedules has occurred without due consideration of potential health impacts. We contend that contemporary employment policies pose a threat to public health because of their impact on how time is valued, used and experienced. In particular, time matters for earning an income and for basic health behaviours, like healthy eating. The sociological theory of timescapes is used to interpret a qualitative study of food consumption and labour market engagement practices among three generations of Australians. We find that wide variability in individual employment schedules is accompanied by desynchronised social lives and less healthy eating practices. The research leads us to theorise that employment regimes that are flexible for employers require workers to live flexible or fluid cultural lives, disembedded from the temporal structure of previous social rituals, whether culinary, familial or friendship. The health consequences of this requirement remain unrecognised by policy-makers.

dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.subjectemployment regimes
dc.subjectpublic policy
dc.subjecthealthy eating
dc.subjectflexible employment
dc.subjectbehavioural health risks
dc.titleFlexible Employment, Flexible Eating and Health Risks
dc.typeJournal Article
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dcterms.source.endPage15
dcterms.source.issn0958-1596
dcterms.source.titleCritical Public Health
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