Faces of precarity : critical perspectives on work, subjectivities and struggles /

The word 'precarity' is widely used when discussing work, employment or social classes. However, there is no consensus on the precise meaning of the term or how it should best be used to explore social changes. This international and interdisciplinary book offers a distinctive and critical...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Choonara, Joseph (Editor ), Murgia, Annalisa (Editor ), Carmo, Renato Miguel do, 1971- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, 2022.
Temas:
Precarious employment.
Travail précaire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor.
Precarious employment
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Cover
  • Faces of Precarity: Critical Perspectives on Work, Subjectivities and Struggles
  • Copyright information
  • Table of contents
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Notes on Contributors
  • 1 Introduction: Critical Perspectives on Precarity and Precariousness
  • The rise of precarity and precariousness
  • A critical intervention
  • The thematic structure of the book
  • Notes
  • References
  • PART I Conceptualizations, Subjectivities and Etymologies
  • 2 Précarité and Precarity: The Amazing Transnational Journey of Two Notions Unable to Form a Proper Concept in English
  • Introduction
  • Out of a notion in French culture, a renewed view of labour markets in Europe's 'Latin' countries
  • A key symbolic element of 1970s French political culture
  • Latin countries versus Germany, the UK and Denmark
  • the 1980s to the early 2000s
  • Awareness of employment precariousness spreads cross-nationally from 2005: Germany and the UK
  • Prekarität formally enters the German Öffentlichkeit (public space)
  • Vulnerable workers in the UK draw increasing attention
  • Transnational multidisciplinary new meanings emerge from an initial mistranslation
  • Franco-English 'precarity': almost a private joke
  • 'Precarity' favoured by activists across the world
  • Precarity today: polysemy and the fuzziness of international English
  • Notes
  • References
  • 3 Conceptualizing Precariousness: A Subject-oriented Approach
  • Introduction
  • Precariousness as the production of subjectivity
  • The precarious subject as a self-entrepreneurial subject
  • Precarious subjectivity and digitalization in the time of a pandemic
  • Reclaiming bodies and social relations to resist precariousness
  • Conclusion
  • Note
  • References
  • 4 The Experience of Precariousness as Vulnerable Time
  • Introduction
  • The historical advent of the abstract time
  • The advent of powerless, accelerated and fragmentary temporality
  • Precariousness as temporal vulnerability
  • Precariousness and the extension of the present
  • Frail future, vulnerable temporalities
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • PART II Class, Work and Employment
  • 5 Above-Below, Inside-Outside: Precarity, Underclass and Social Exclusion in Demobilized Class Societies
  • Introduction
  • The fundamental concepts of exclusion and precarity
  • Blind spots of theories of class
  • Social exclusion
  • Precarity
  • On the political construction of new underclasses
  • At the threshold of social respectability
  • The formation of underclasses through devaluation
  • Social exclusion: class-theoretical perspectives
  • Competing classes
  • Precarious full-employment society
  • Requirements for a critical theory of precariat and underclass formation
  • Note
  • References
  • 6 Class, Classification and Conjunctures: The Use of 'Precarity' in Social Research
  • Introduction
  • Precarity, classification and conjunctures

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