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oapen-20.500.12657-602772024-03-27T14:14:55Z Monimuotoinen ansiotyö Haapakorpi, Arja Järvensivu, Anu Kauhanen, Merja Melin, Harri Järvensivu, Anu Haapakorpi, Arja gainful employment, income, career, occupational groups, freelance workers, entrepreneurship, multiple job holding, portfolio career, sociology of working life thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKS Social welfare and social services This edited volume discusses multiple job holding as part of Finnish working life. The articles in this book examine this little researched phenomenon through a wide range of empirical data. Based on Statistics Finland's register data, different ways of combining jobs are classified. Interview material sheds light on the conditions for holding multible jobs. A new perspective is provided by the chaos theory of careers. According to the results of the study, very different paths lead to becoming a multiple job holder. The combination of jobs is influenced by the life path and interests of the individual, as well as by constraints and opportunities available. Motives can also be linked to professional networks, decisions made by immediate family, coincidences or whims. This book helps to understand the diversity of ways of working. At the same time, it illustrates the challenges faced by those who work multiple jobs as they try to operate within simpler models and categorisations of labour. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the changing nature of work, especially researchers, students and policy-makers. 2022-12-16T14:17:51Z 2022-12-16T14:17:51Z 2022 book 9789523590410 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/60277 fin application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 978-952-359-040-3.pdf Tampere University Press a58c317d-aa1d-4cda-913b-073587647c91 9789523590410 179 Tampere open access
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This edited volume discusses multiple job holding as part of Finnish working life. The articles in this book examine this little researched phenomenon through a wide range of empirical data. Based on Statistics Finland's register data, different ways of combining jobs are classified. Interview material sheds light on the conditions for holding multible jobs. A new perspective is provided by the chaos theory of careers.
According to the results of the study, very different paths lead to becoming a multiple job holder. The combination of jobs is influenced by the life path and interests of the individual, as well as by constraints and opportunities available. Motives can also be linked to professional networks, decisions made by immediate family, coincidences or whims.
This book helps to understand the diversity of ways of working. At the same time, it illustrates the challenges faced by those who work multiple jobs as they try to operate within simpler models and categorisations of labour. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the changing nature of work, especially researchers, students and policy-makers.
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