Precarious work and the reluctance to complain: Italian temporary migrant workers in Australia
Precarious work and the reluctance to complain: Italian temporary migrant workers in Australia
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10.1080/10301763.2018.1558895
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2019-01-02
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Boese, Martina
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Campbell, Iain;Tranfaglia, Maria Azzurra;Boese, Martina
许多临时移民工人（TMWs）不愿意挑战低工资和低工作条件是研究和政策的一个重要难题。本文通过对意大利TMWs的深入采访来探讨这个难题，这些TMWs最近在澳大利亚的食品服务和/或农场有工作经验。文章描述了他们的工作不稳定的经历，其特点是普遍和系统地违反最低工资条例少付工资。它表明，很少有意大利TMW通过集体或个人行动对支付不足提出质疑。文章回顾了受访者提供的各种理由，他们不愿意追求个人投诉少付。它认为，害怕雇主报复是采取行动的一个强大和可以理解的障碍。然而，也有影响力的态度，其效果是淡化目前工作的低工资的重要性，例如，通过判断目前的工作只是一个长期的生命过程项目中的一个临时阶段。调查结果表明，不愿投诉需要定位于与其他形式的移徙工人机构，无论是在工作场所内外，以及他们所嵌入的社会关系。
The reluctance of many temporary migrant workers (TMWs) to challenge poor wages and conditions is an important puzzle for both research and policy. This article explores the puzzle by drawing on in-depth interviews with Italian TMWs who have had recent work experience in food services and/or farms in Australia. The article describes their experiences of precarious work, marked by widespread and systematic underpayment of wages in breach of minimum wage regulation. It shows that few Italian TMWs challenged underpayments, whether through collective or individual action. The article reviews the varied rationales offered by the interviewees for their reluctance to pursue an individual complaint about underpayments. It finds that fear of employer reprisals was a powerful and understandable barrier to action. Also influential, however, were attitudes that had the effect of downplaying the significance of low pay in the current job, for example, by means of a judgment that the current job is only a temporary stage in a long-term life-course project. The findings indicate that reluctance to complain needs to be situated in relation to other forms of migrant worker agency, both within and outside the workplace, and the social relations in which they are embedded.