COVID19 재난시기 버스운전노동자가 경험하는 다층적 불안정노동 (Multi-levels of Precarious Work)

초록

This study pays attention to the precarious work experience of bus drivers who are engaged in essential industries that must be maintained as public transportation despite the risk of infection due to face-to-face contact during COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to the precarious work that bus transportation workers experience on a daily basis, the purpose of this study is to analyze how their precarious work is revealed, especially during the COVID-19 disaster. To this end, this study conducted an in-depth interview with six bus drivers and conducted an inductive thematic analysis using a generic qualitative analysis method. As a result, they were experiencing ‘Multi-levels of Precarious Work’ consisting of the structural dimension, the workplace dimension, and finally the personal dimension. The structural contradiction between the privately oriented operating system and essential labor with public nature appeared as a specific attributes of precarious work such as wage and employment instability, labor control, and overworked labor at the workplace level. In addition, structural and workplace instability resulted as health problems, psychological anxiety, and lack of social relationships at the individual level. The characteristics of these multi-level precarious work surrounding bus transport workers influence each other at each level, and instability is reinforced even in the realm of work space and personal life. This study is to reveal in detail how bus drivers experience precarious work in everyday and disaster-specific situations, and ultimately to derive implications for improving the working environment and social protection of essential workers.

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