Tag: Precarious work

  • Tiefe Pensen, lange Arbeitstage in der Reinigungsbranche

    Low employment rates, long working days in the cleaning sector

    Reta Barfuss forscht zu ungewollter Teilzeitarbeit. Im Gespräch erklärt die Doktorandin, weshalb viele Gebäudereiniger:innen trotz tiefem Pensum lange Arbeitstage haben.

  • «Dem Kanton Zürich geht es gut, aber…»

    "The Canton of Zurich is doing well, but…"

    Over 100 people joined us to celebrate the launch of the DIZH Public Data Lab (PDL) under the theme “How do we take the pulse of the Canton of Zurich?”.

  • Von prekärer Arbeit und unsichtbaren Menschen

    On Precarious Work and Invisible People

    From Bonn to Bogotá, Kiel and São Paulo to Zurich – this is the geographical description of Merlin Hebecker's journey. What connects these places is his interest in social inequalities.

  • Unsichtbares sichtbar machen

    Making the Invisible Visible

    The people and their employment situations that Karin Schwiter researches are often not captured by official statistics. In this interview, the Professor of Labour Geography at the University of Zurich explains how such data gaps arise and how they can be made visible.