Precarity has been increasing globally, along with growing interest in its study. Historicizing precarity shows that the precarization of work has been present throughout the entire era of industrial capitalism, although it was not conceptualized as such. Conceptualizations of precarious work provided by social scientists from the late 1970s onwards were mainly related to the spread of flexibility and flexible employment as necessary changes to address unemployment and enhance competitiveness. However, following the onset of the global financial and economic crisis, the connection between precarity and globalization became one of the main research focuses.
The introduction of the neoliberal concept of management in social welfare is reflected, among other things, in the creation of precarious employment for personal assistants. An analysis of the Personal Assistance Act (ZOA) using the methodology of the International Labour Organization revealed that the employement of personal assistants involves four out of seven levels of precarity risk. Ironically, during the same period in which the ministry responsible for personal assistance was drafting this “precarious” law, it also launched a campaign to systematically address the problem of precarization in Slovenia.
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