| Chapter 1: | Introduction |
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Chapter 7 considers the health implications of these neoliberal-inspired discourses. As this study was not designed to empirically link contingent work to health, this discussion is largely propositional. I identify the notion of citizenship as being central to the workers’ experiences with contingent work, and I point to ways in which the discourses of advantage and disadvantage might be both health enhancing and health damaging. Finally, I raise questions about the implications of these possibilities for the ways in which researchers think about and approach the study of contingent work and health.
Chapter 8 concludes with an overview of the goals of the study and a discussion of the main findings—namely, that the workers perceive their work as stigmatised and stigmatising, that they manage this stigma through discursive means, that this management is achieved through the construction of neoliberal citizenship, and that these constructions are socially produced. I conclude with a discussion of the implications of the findings of this study for scholarship, practice, and policy, as well as a consideration of the new directions this work provides for future research.