Short Abstract:

This roundtable reflects on the intersections and disconnects between labour, social protection and livelihoods analysis from a variety of conceptual and empirical vantage points, and their significance of this for understanding and tackling crisis. It is organised as a fishbowl discussion.

Long Abstract:

Contemporary academic and policy discussions about the situation of precarious workers, and possibilities for improving their livelihoods, are marked by a relative disconnect between social protection perspectives, critical labour studies analyses, and critical livelihoods approaches. This roundtable discussion invites reflection on the overlaps and gaps in and between these 3 fields, and their consequences for understanding multiple dimensions of crisis that precarious workers are affected by, from different conceptual and empirical vantage points. It seeks to establish in which areas these gaps become visible and what can be done to overcome them conceptually and practically, to more effectively tackle the challenges that precarious workers across the globe face. The roundtable is organised as a fishbowl discussion, i.e. with an initial set of inputs, followed by an open invitation to all participants to replace these speakers and contribute their own experiences and insights as co-experts. Speakers / participants are welcome to reflect on specific geographic contexts, sectors, or (sets of) measures, or offer broader conceptual and/or methodological insights.

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