Dirty work on the COVID-19 frontlines: Exacerbating the situation of marginalized groups in marginalized professions
| Autor: | Tahira M. Probst, Maike E. Debus, Dana Unger |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Social Psychology
media_common.quotation_subject Social distance 05 social sciences Ethnic group Face (sociological concept) 050109 social psychology Health equity Social support Optimism Work (electrical) 0502 economics and business 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Social inequality Demographic economics Sociology 050203 business & management Applied Psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Industrial and Organizational Psychology. 14:144-148 |
| ISSN: | 1754-9434 1754-9426 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/iop.2021.33 |
| Popis: | [...]many dirty jobs are held by members of ethnic minority groups (e.g., Landsbergis etal., 2014) who already face preexisting health disparities due to “inequities in living, working, health, and social conditions that have persisted across generations” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2020). [...]the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2020) report that “systemic health and social inequities” place ethnic minority groups at “increased risk of getting COVID-19 or experiencing severe illness, regardless of age” and at rates four to five times greater than non-Hispanic White persons. [...]recent workplace COVID-19 outbreaks have revealed highly precarious working conditions that appear to be standard in certain industries (e.g., agriculture, meatpacking, textile) that often employ large numbers of migrant workers who live and work in poor and cramped conditions rendering social distancing impossible (e.g., Pittam, 2020;Ziady etal., 2020). According to conservation of resources theory (Hobfoll, 1989), individuals potentially have access to numerous resources in the form of objects (e.g., housing, food), conditions (e.g., stable employment, status), personal characteristics (e.g., self-efficacy, optimism), and energies (e.g., social support). |
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