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Protest, youth and precariousness : the unfinished fight against austerity in Portugal /

"After over a decade of the austerity measures that followed the 2008 financial crisis-entailing severe, unpopular policies that have galvanized opposition and frayed social ties-what lies next for European societies? Portugal offers an interesting case for exploring this question, as a nation...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Carmo, Renato Miguel do, 1971- (Editor), Simões, José Alberto Vasconcelos (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn, 2020.
Series:Protest, culture and society ; v. 27.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part I Youth Precariousness, Work and Collective Action
  • Chapter 1 Precarious Futures From Non-Standard Jobs to an Uncertain Tomorrow
  • Chapter 2 Neither 'New' nor 'Normal' Tales of Precarity from a Life Course Follow-Up Study with Young Adults in Portugal (2009-2016)
  • Chapter 3 Precariousness and Multiple- Engagement Activism in Portugal
  • Chapter 4 Collective Action at a Crossroad: Trade Unions and Social Movements in the Age of Labour Precariousness and Austerity
  • Chapter 5 The Precariat Strikes Back? Political Alternatives to Labour Degradation
  • Part II Protest, Media and Democracy
  • Chapter 6 Contentious Portugal: Reverberation of the 1974 Revolution in the Portuguese Anti-Austerity Cycle of Protest
  • Chapter 7 Forms of Action, Forms of Organisation and Survival Strategies in the Portuguese Anti-Austerity Protests
  • Chapter 8 Digital Media, Youth and the New Grammars of Activism in Portugal
  • Chapter 9 Reinstitutionalising Democracy: The Role of the Portuguese Elections in Temporally Taming the Democratic Crisis
  • Conclusion: Towards a Post-Austerity Turn?
  • Index