
Lean work and a narrowing path to ‘good jobs’
Work regimes are increasingly demanding. But ‘leaner’ does not mean ‘fitter’ for workers.
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Amy Erbe Healy is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Limerick. Her recent research includes work on precarity and decent work across western Europe, human trafficking on the island of Ireland and food poverty in the Republic of Ireland.

Work regimes are increasingly demanding. But ‘leaner’ does not mean ‘fitter’ for workers.