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Ferguson, Andrew Guthrie, The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement
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Dominique, Clément, Debating Rights Inflation in Canada: A Sociology of Human Rights
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The Hidden Work of Challenging Precarity
No full textThis article explores the hidden work of workers employed in precarious jobs which are characterized by part-time and temporary contracts, limited control over work schedules, and poor access to regulatory protection. Through 77 semi-structured interviews with workers in low-wage, precarious jobs in Ontario, Canada, we examine workers’ attempts to challenge the precarity they face when confronted by workplace conditions violating the Ontario Employment Standards Act (ESA), such as not being paid minimum wages, not being paid for overtime, being fired wrongfully or being subject to reprisals. We argue that these challenges involve hidden work, which is neither acknowledged nor recognized in the current ESA enforcement regime. We examine three types of hidden work that involve (1) creating a sense of positive self-worth amidst disempowering practices; (2) engaging in advocacy vis-à-vis employers, sometimes through launching official claims with the Ontario Ministry of Labour; and (3) developing strategies to avoid the costs of precarity in the future. We argue that this hidden work of challenging precarity needs to be formally recognized and that concrete strategies for doing so might lead to more robust protection for workers, particularly within ESA enforcement practices
Daly, Jonathan, Crime and Punishment in Russia: A Comparative History from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin
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Gonzales, Roberto G., Nando Sigona, Martha C. Franco, and Anna Papoutsi, Undocumented Migration: Borders, Immigration Enforcement, and Belonging
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La réalité des couples qui ne vivent pas sous le même toit en Europe : forcés à migrer ou des unions plus individualisées ?
No full textL’étude des couples ne vivaant pas ensemble (LAT) est de plus en plus présente dans la sociologie de la famille. Il n’existe presque pas d’études quantitatives ayant analysé des couples mariés vivant séparément. Cependant, les changements familiaux les plus récents font augmenter la possibilité de ces unions. Cette recherche analyse la réalité des LAT mariés d’un point de vue quantitatif, grâce au projet GGS qui a réuni un sous-échantillon de 524 cas issus de 8 pays d’Europe. Les résultats signalent l’existence de ces deux typologies au sein de ces couples mariés. Cependant, la situation prédominante est celle des couples qui vivent cette situation de façon forcée. Ils sont caractérisés par un âge moyen supérieur, une moindre fréquence de contact et un plus grand sentiment de solitude que les autres couples ne vivant pas ensemble
Organizational Turning Points: The Transformation of the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation in New York City
No full textSociologists and criminologists have relied on the concept of “turning points” to map individual criminal careers over the life course. Similar to individuals, criminal organizations undergo drastic changes that influence their trajectory over time and space. Using the case of the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (ALKQN) in New York City, we introduce the concept of “organizational turning points” to explain the group’s evolution through various legitimate and illegitimate forms. Bringing together conceptual lenses from literature on organizational change, culture and cognition, and criminology, we demonstrate that street gangs can be complex and fluid organisms that change over time and space. Identifying and recognizing organizational turning points in criminal groups can have important implications for scholars and practitioners alike