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Workers in Poverty: An Insight Into Informal Workers Around the World

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2017

Mahima Saxena
Mahima Saxena
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Gloss, Carr, Reichman, Abdul-Nasiru, and Oestereich (2017) present compelling arguments on a moral/humanistic need for I-O psychologists to consider workers that are living and working in deep poverty. Their case nicely shifts focus to large percentages of global workers who heretofore have only been represented minimally in the scholarly discourse in our field. I would like to accomplish two goals in this commentary. First, I would like to present a brief historical perspective on why industrial and organizational (I-O) psychology's focus has been on POSH workers. Second, I will provide conceptual extensions to Gloss et al.’s (2017) focal article by presenting some insights into the world of informal workers.

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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , September 2017 , pp. 376 - 379
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