What is it about?
We investigate challenges and barriers that precarious workers may face throughout their career trajectories. Focusing on paid domestic cleaning workers, we also highlight how individuals strive to make the best career decisions they can, despite multiple volitional constraints.
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Why is it important?
Studies focusing on career trajectories marked by vulnerability are needed because existing research has generally concerned workforce samples possessing a certain level of control and resources, leaving a gap in understanding how vulnerability limits the freedom of precarious workers to make career decisions.
Perspectives
Writing this article was a pleasure and a challenge due to the diversity of narratives shared by our participants. I hope that people reading this article will be touched by the stories presented in the paper and will also reflect on what it means to make career choices when few alternatives are available.
André Borges
Universite de Lausanne
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This page is a summary of: The road to precarious work: Studying paid domestic cleaning workers’ career trajectories., Journal of Counseling Psychology, October 2025, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/cou0000840.
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