"They See Us As Machines:" The Experience of Recent Immigrant Women in the Low Wage Informal Labor Sector.
"They See Us As Machines:" The Experience of Recent Immigrant Women in the Low Wage Informal Labor Sector.
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DOI：
10.1371/journal.pone.0142686
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发表时间：
2015
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影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Hyatt RR
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作者：
Panikkar B;Brugge D;Gute DM;Hyatt RR
本研究探讨了组织的工作和职业健康风险引起的最近移民妇女（n = 8）谁在美国不到三年，受雇于非正规工作部门，如清洁和工厂工作在大波士顿地区马萨诸塞州。与了解这一部门的社区主要举报人和该地区临时就业机构代表进行的其他访谈（n = 8）为与新移民妇女进行的访谈提供了进一步的背景。这些结果也与我们的移民职业健康调查进行了比较，这是一个大型项目，催生了这项研究。研究参与者的回应表明，健康结果与日工奖学金一致，新移民妇女在这些低工资的非正式工作部门中的风险尤其高。还观察到基于种族和职业的健康经历的差异。低技能的临时工作是围绕着满足雇主的工作业绩期望而设计的;工人的需求几乎得不到满足，导致工作标准低，工人保护很少，健康状况不佳。非标准就业或非正规劳动部门的日益普遍，要求修订政策或劳动力市场立法，以满足这些边缘化工人的需求。
This study explores the organization of work and occupational health risk as elicited from recently immigrated women (n = 8) who have been in the US for less than three years and employed in informal work sectors such as cleaning and factory work in the greater Boston area in Massachusetts. Additional interviews (n = 8) with Community Key Informants with knowledge of this sector and representatives of temporary employment agencies in the area provides further context to the interviews conducted with recent immigrant women. These results were also compared with our immigrant occupational health survey, a large project that spawned this study. Responses from the study participants suggest health outcomes consistent with being a day-laborer scholarship, new immigrant women are especially at higher risk within these low wage informal work sectors. A difference in health experiences based on ethnicity and occupation was also observed. Low skilled temporary jobs are fashioned around meeting the job performance expectations of the employer; the worker’s needs are hardly addressed, resulting in low work standards, little worker protection and poor health outcomes. The rising prevalence of non-standard employment or informal labor sector requires that policies or labor market legislation be revised to meet the needs presented by these marginalized workers.