Yes / This paper argues for the need to reconsider the changing nature of in-work poverty (IWP). In doing so, we present evidence not included in current debates or statistics, of people working in more than one job, yet still experiencing IWP. Using the dynamic theory of poverty and a qualitative approach, we identify various structural constraints that sustain cycles of IWP. This highlights the multi-dimensionalities of poverty, incorporating the temporalities, types and depths of IWP. Our evidence demonstrates how poverty is experienced and individualised and also how it is created and sustained through paid work, rather than being challenged by it.

Yes / This chapter is based on detailed qualitative research into the working lives of low-paid workers in multiple employment. We discuss the research design and practicalities of researching a ‘hard to reach group’ of workers. The emotive and sensitive issues that emerged for both the researchers and participants are also assessed.

Yes / This paper critically examines how low-paid workers, who need to work in more than one legitimate job to make ends meet, attempt to reconcile work and life. The concept of work-life articulation is utilised to investigate the experiences, strategies and practicalities of combining multiple employment with domestic and care duties. Based on detailed qualitative research, the findings reveal workers with 2, 3, 4, 5 and even 7 different jobs due to low-pay, limited working hours and employment instability. The study highlights the increasing variability of working hours, together with the dual fragmentation of working time and employment. It identifies unique dimensions of work extensification, as these workers have an amalgamation of jobs dispersed across fragmented, expansive and complex temporalities and spatialities. This research makes explicit the interconnected economic and temporal challenges of low-pay, insufficient hours and precarious employment, which creates significant challenges of juggling multiple jobs with familial responsibilities.

duréndez@um.es / En el ámbito privado, el pluriempleo y la pluriactividad no constitutivos de concurrencia desleal son lícitos y están permitidos, salvo los supuestos limitativos contemplados por la normativa vigente, pudiendo eliminarse al acordar las partes el pacto de exclusividad o de plena dedicación mediante compensación económica expresa, o controlarse su desarrollo a través de los mecanismos establecidos al efecto en las normas estatales y convenios colectivos. In the private sector, multiple employment and pluriactivity, which do not constitute unfair competition, are legal and permitted with the exception of limited assumptions covered by existing legislation. They can be eliminated if the parties have agreed upon exclusivity and a non-competition agreement or full-time dedication through express economic compensation or control its development of state regulations and collective agreements through established mechanisms. Se analiza el marco socioeconómico actual, las delimitaciones conceptuales entre ambas situaciones, la constitucionalidad tanto de estas situaciones, como de sus diferentes régimenes jurídicos, así como de las prohibiciones y limitaciones establecidas en el sistema de fuentes del Derecho del Trabajo y de la Seguridad Social Español, efectuando una clasificación de las mismas. / The following are analyzed: the current socioeconomic framework, the conceptual boundaries between both situations and how they are formed as to their different legal regulations and established prohibitions and limitations in the system of sources of the Spanish Labour Law and Social Security, making a classification of them. En el ámbito de la Seguridad Social, se analizan los diversos regímenes jurídicos tanto en materia de cotización como prestacional, incluyendo la cuestión de la compatibilidad o incompatibilidad de prestaciones al hilo de las diversas contingencias protegibles en las que podrían tener repercusiones estas situaciones en el seno de los regímenes que integran el Sistema Español de Seguridad Social y considerando las diversas casuísticas que pudieran producirse. In the Social Security field, various legal systems are analyzed in terms of contribution and benefits, including the issue of compatibility or incompatibility of benefits along with the different secured contingencies that could impact these situations in the middle of the schemes that involve the Spanish System of Social Security, considering the various circumstances that may occur.