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marginal jobs  

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  • Marginality, or being on the margins of a normal or desired state, has long been a concern of social thinkers. In social theory, the concept has been seen as a social relationship of difference, uncertainty, and exclusion, and as inequality in working conditions, pay, and benefits. [Source: Sociology of Work: An Encyclopedia; Jobs, Marginal]

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