Abstract The sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) have successfully raised awareness and built momentum for taking collective action, while also remaining uncritical of the central causes environmental crises – economic growth, inequality, overconsumption in Global North. We analyse SDG 8 “Decent Work Economic Growth” from perspective strong sustainability as phenomena, institutions ideologies f...

Social workers worldwide must be concerned about how to overcome poverty after the COVID-19. The 61st Session of United Nations Commission for Development has highlighted decent work as a priority social and welfare practitioners de Decent is key strategy in post-pandemic time. A systematic review literature revealed 225 articles from 2020 on this topic. descriptors were work, good job, employm...

Work, under fair employment and decent work, reduces inequities in health. Nowadays it seems, however, that obtaining and carrying out a job and worker performance take precedence over the aforementioned attributes. Workers are not only exposed to accidents, diseases caused by various agents, ergonomic and psychosocial risks but also affected by work modes imposed by the "wildmarket", such as t...

It is often assumed that the ideological dominance of neoliberalism has profoundly altered job security and long-term employment relationships. Such claims a more unstable insecure jobs market in twenty-first century are focus this paper. Using Labour Force Survey data stability private sector over than 20 years Ireland examined. As liberal economy, represents fitting context which to examine i...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify lessons and implications on the theme decent work in social care. This has long been highlighted as integral improving care for elderly. COVID-19 pandemic experience reveals about systemic absence one place, Scotland, homes. main lesson implication a need change beyond focus levels pay advocacy it conventionally understood. Design/methodology/app...