scholarly journals “ACCESSIBILITY TO MINIMUM WAGE AND WAGE-INCOME DETERMINANTS: A STUDY OF THE RESIDENTIAL AND NONRESIDENTIAL PRIVATE SECURITY GUARDS IN THE CITY OF AHMEDABAD”

2021 ◽  
pp. 556-664
Author(s):  
Samir Mahajan
Keyword(s):  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Private Security ◽  
Security Guards ◽  
Security Services ◽  
Security Industry ◽  
Private Security Industry ◽  
The City ◽  
And Training ◽  
Wage Income

Demand for security services has exploded both for residential and non-residential premises due to mounting urbanization, rapid industrialization, and expansion of trade and commerce activities in the country in recent years. This has created enormous opportunity for employment specially for the poor who otherwise may have the least possibility securing a job. The private security industry being abysmally informal, it is perceived that workers here are underpaid. As such the plight of the guards have not improved much in this sector. The city of Ahmedabad is one of the major consumersofprivate security services. Income being one of the prominent determinants of well-being, it would be interesting to look into the aspect of accessibility to prescribed minimum wage,and examine what determines wage of the private security guards in this city.More specifically, this paper endeavours to throw light on the probability of access to minimum wage bythe guards at residential and non-residential premises in the city, and examine the various determinants affecting the income wage of the guards. Pertinent econometric modelshave been constructed for the purpose of the study. Result of data analysis shows that access to minimum wage is not universally entitled to the private security guards in the city of Ahmedabad. The study finds that the residential guards has less chance of having access to minimum wage than that of their non-residential counter in the city. However, both education and training have some positive bearing on the wage income of the guards.

Guarding the Body

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-72
Author(s):  
Erika Robb Larkins
Keyword(s):  
Lower Class ◽  
Private Security ◽  
The Body ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Basic Training ◽  
Security Guards ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Security Industry ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Private Security Industry

Drawing on 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork in the private security industry, this article focuses on the training of low-level guards, examining the centrality of the body and embodied experience to their work in hospitality settings. In a racially stratified society in which lower-class, dark-skinned bodies are oft en equated with poverty and criminality, security guards are required to perform an image of upstanding, respectable, law-abiding citizens in order to do their jobs protecting corporate property. Guards learn techniques of body management at security schools as part of their basic training. They also learn how to subdue the bodies of others, including those of white elites, who represent a constant challenge to their authority. Working from my own experiences as a student in private security schools, I argue for the relevance of an understanding of the body and its significations to private security work.

Contestation, Cooperation, and Competition in (Re)Defining European Security

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Gheciu
Keyword(s):  
Private Security ◽  
European Security ◽  
East European ◽  
Security Governance ◽  
Security Services ◽  
Security Industry ◽  
Cooperation And Competition ◽  
Private Security Industry ◽  
Communist Countries

Chapter 4 continues the exploration of practices of insertion of East European polities in the European field of security. Here, the focus is on the bigger picture of European security governance. Specifically, the chapter explores performances of security through which private security actors—including, increasingly, PSCs from former communist countries—seek to enhance their power and play more prominent roles in European security governance. In recent years, one of the most interesting developments in the European field of security has been the growing mobilization of the private security industry—especially within the framework of the Confederation of European Security Services (CoESS)—in an effort to enhance its role in security governance and security provision.

scholarly journals Servile Sentinels of the City: Private Security Guards, Organized Informality, and Labour in Interactive Services in Globalized India

2013 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nandini Gooptu
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Private Security ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
Emotional Labour ◽  
Security Guards ◽  
Service Jobs ◽  
Interactive Services ◽  
The City ◽  
And Training

AbstractThrough a study of private security guards in urban India, this paper investigates emerging labour processes in the increasingly dominant private corporate sector of Third World rising economies, in the wake of economic liberalization and globalization. To meet the escalating need for labour in interactive services, a vast cadre of low-paid, casual workers has emerged, working under a regime of organized informality. Recruitment and training here are systematically institutionalized and formalized by private agencies, with the imprimatur of the state, but employment relations remain informal and insecure. The paper examines forms of labour subordination and a culture of servility at the workplace, as well as embodied work and emotional labour that characterize low-end service jobs. The paper shows how workers’ political subjectivity and their perception of class difference and social identity are shaped by cultural and social interaction at work and how these relate to wider democratic politics and citizenship.

Public Regulation of Private Security: A Statutory Analysis of State Regulation of Security Guards

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (9) ◽  
pp. 891-908 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael S. Klein ◽  
Craig Hemmens
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Private Security ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Security Guards ◽  
Public Regulation ◽  
Security Industry ◽  
Private Security Industry

Security guards outnumber police by almost 3 to 1, and this discrepancy has been growing steadily since the latter part of the 20th century. Security guards perform many of the same functions as police officers and may even carry weapons, but to what extent do states regulate the private security industry? This article compares the change in state regulation of private security, in particular the requirements for hiring security guards. The provisions of the states as of 1982, 1998, and 2015 are compared and evaluated. We are interested in determining what threshold requirements the states have seen fit to establish for employment in the security industry, and whether these threshold requirements provide adequate protection for the public.

scholarly journals La sécurité privée et le problème de la confiance : l’expérience australienne

Criminologie ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Prenzler
Keyword(s):  
Private Security ◽  
Regulatory Control ◽  
Security Services ◽  
Security Industry ◽  
Incident Reports ◽  
Private Security Industry ◽  
Partnership Approach

The private security industry in Australia, as in many jurisdictions, has been beset by allegations of fraud, abuse of powers and incompetence. These problems are illustrated through trade practices, prosecutions, government inquiries, incident reports and other sources. Causation is analysed in terms of Shapiro's (1987) formulation of the problem of "policing trust". The substantial delegation of responsibility entailed in security work makes it highly vulnerable to exploitation and fraud, and this potential is exacerbated by the inadequate regulation of security services. Mitigation of these problems is suggested though an enhanced partnership approach of government and the security industry to regulatory control, an through an assessment of the benefits of in-house security.

A Statutory Analysis of State Regulation of Security Guard Training Requirements

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 339-356
Author(s):  
Michael S. Klein ◽  
Leah Ruiz ◽  
Craig Hemmens
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Private Security ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Training Requirements ◽  
Security Guards ◽  
Security Industry ◽  
Security Guard ◽  
State Statutes ◽  
Private Security Industry

Security guards outnumber police by almost three to one, and they perform many of the same functions as police officers and many even carry a firearm, but to what extent do states regulate the private security industry? Prior research has examined state statutes regulating security guard hiring requirements; this article builds on this research by examining state statutes regulating security guard training requirements. This article compares the change in state regulation of security guard training since 1999. We are interested in determining what threshold requirements the states have seen fit to establish for training in the security industry and whether these threshold requirements provide adequate protection for the public.

scholarly journals A conceptual study on Innovative Motivation Model to Industrial Private Security force

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (02) ◽  
pp. 73-82
Author(s):  
V. Rangarajan ◽  
Tamil Jyothi
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Private Security ◽  
Security Threats ◽  
Job Description ◽  
Security Services ◽  
Security Industry ◽  
Private Security Industry ◽  
Conceptual Study ◽  
Turn Over ◽  
Motivation Model

In recent times the need and demand for security services have grown dramatically in the wake of security threats in all sectors irrespective of the nature of the business and size. The limitation of government is that it is neither their constitutional duty nor has the adequate resources to protect the private sector at all times. Given the limitations ,many private sector players in Private Security Industry took the initiative to secure their properties by training, deploying the civilians to guard the commercial establishments. As a next step the organizations need to motivate the untrained, unskilled or semi skilled to suit to the job description. The onus is on the HR and Administration manager, executives who are directly responsible for security of the properties and people in their business locations. On the other hand the challenges faced by HR department as how to motivate the security workforce cutting cross all states to run the business and to secure the properties Interestingly the Private security Industry's turn over is pegged around Rs.20,000 crores with employment to 70 lakhs of people by 2020. Undoubtedly the volume is growing exponentially. .

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