Micro-Entrepreneurs’ Health Strategies During and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic

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<a href="https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/humaff-2022-1002/html" target="_blank" >https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/humaff-2022-1002/html</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/humaff-2022-1002" target="_blank" >10.1515/humaff-2022-1002</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Micro-Entrepreneurs’ Health Strategies During and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The topic of safeguarding against sickness grew in importance during the COVID-19 pandemic. People’s health was more at risk, yet not all had the same capacity and options to deal with it. Therefore, this article focuses on the under-researched topic of choice of strategies and individual practices for safeguarding against one’s sickness among micro-entrepreneurs (with 1–10 employees) before and during the pandemic, namely on the example of Czechia. We analyse 30 qualitative interviews with micro-entrepreneurs to demonstrate how their social location affects the attainability of strategies and individual practices for that purpose. It is primarily their family role (breadwinner vs caregiver) that, along with socioeconomic status, either limits or opens choices of strategies and individual practices or combinations thereof. Although the COVID-19 pandemic posed a high health risk to the entire society, it did not bring the micro-entrepreneurs to revise their often-risky choices in safeguarding against sickness. In contrast, it highlighted some specifics of micro-enterprises, e.g. their unclear organisational structure, which proved a high risk in the context of the health crisis.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Micro-Entrepreneurs’ Health Strategies During and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic

Popis výsledku anglicky

The topic of safeguarding against sickness grew in importance during the COVID-19 pandemic. People’s health was more at risk, yet not all had the same capacity and options to deal with it. Therefore, this article focuses on the under-researched topic of choice of strategies and individual practices for safeguarding against one’s sickness among micro-entrepreneurs (with 1–10 employees) before and during the pandemic, namely on the example of Czechia. We analyse 30 qualitative interviews with micro-entrepreneurs to demonstrate how their social location affects the attainability of strategies and individual practices for that purpose. It is primarily their family role (breadwinner vs caregiver) that, along with socioeconomic status, either limits or opens choices of strategies and individual practices or combinations thereof. Although the COVID-19 pandemic posed a high health risk to the entire society, it did not bring the micro-entrepreneurs to revise their often-risky choices in safeguarding against sickness. In contrast, it highlighted some specifics of micro-enterprises, e.g. their unclear organisational structure, which proved a high risk in the context of the health crisis.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50401 - Sociology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/TL03000670" target="_blank" >TL03000670: Prekarita jako reálná zkušenost sebezaměstaných a mikropodniků</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Human Affairs

ISSN

1210-3055

e-ISSN

1337-401X

Svazek periodika

34

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

DE - Spolková republika Německo

Počet stran výsledku

15

Strana od-do

56-70

Kód UT WoS článku

001073310300001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85173953425