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Faces of Precarity

Faces of Precarity

Critical Perspectives on Work, Subjectivities and Struggles
Buch | Hardcover
256 Seiten
2022
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-2007-0 (ISBN)
CHF 118,70 inkl. MwSt
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 perspective approach to an important topic.
The words ‘precarity’ and ‘precariousness’ are widely used when discussing work, social conditions and experiences. However, there is no consensus on their meaning or how best to use them to explore social changes.


This book shows how scholars have mapped out these notions, offering substantive analyses of issues such as the relationships between precariousness, debt, migration, health and workers’ mobilizations, and how these relationships have changed in the context of COVID-19.


Bringing together an international group of authors from diverse fields, this book offers a distinctive critical perspective on the processes of precarization, focusing in particular on the European context.


The Introduction, Chapters 3 and 8, and the Afterword are available Open Access via OAPEN under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

Joseph Choonara is Lecturer in the School of Business at the University of Leicester, UK. Renato Miguel Carmo is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal. Annalisa Murgia is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Milan, Italy, where she coordinates the ERC project SHARE.

1. Introduction: Critical Perspectives on Precarity and Precariousness ~ Joseph Choonara, Annalisa Murgia and Renato Miguel Carmo





Part I: Conceptualisations, Subjectivities and Etymologies


2. Précarité and Precarity: The Amazing Transnational Journey of Two Notions Unable to Form a Proper Concept in English ~ Jean-Claude Barbier


3. Conceptualising Precariousness: A Subject-oriented Approach ~ Emiliana Armano, Cristina Morini and Annalisa Murgia


4. The Experience of Precariousness as Vulnerable Time ~ André Barata and Renato Miguel Carmo





Part II: Class, Work and Employment


5. Above-Below, Inside-Outside: Precarity, Underclass and Social Exclusion in Demobilised Class Societies ~Klaus Dörre


6. Class, Classification and Conjunctures: The Use of ‘Precarity’ in Social Research ~ Charles Umney


7. The Problem with Precarity: Precarious Employment and Labour Markets ~ Joseph Choonara


8. The Social Foundations of Precarious Work: The Role of Unpaid Labour in the Family ~ Valeria Pulignano and Glenn Morgan


9. Precariousness in the Platform Economy ~ Agnieszka Piasna


10. An Epidemic-Related Turning Point: Precarious Work, Platforms and Utopian Energies ~ Patrick Cingolani





Part III: Experiences, Concretisations and Struggles


11. The Embodiment of Insecurity: How Precarious Labour Market Trajectories Affect Young Workers’ Health and Wellbeing in Catalonia (Spain) ~ Mireia Bolíbar, Francesc X. Belvis and Mariana Gutiérrez-Zamora


12. Precarity and Migration: Thai Wild Berry Pickers in Sweden ~ Charlotta Hedberg


13. Revisiting the Concept of Precarious Work in Times of Covid-19 ~ Barbora Holubová and Marta Kahancová


14. Precarious Workers and Precarity Through the Lenses of Social Movement Studies ~ Alice Mattoni


15. Organising and Self-organised Precarious Workers: The Experience of Britain ~ Jane Hardy


16. Afterword: A Pandemic of Precarity ~ Joseph Choonara, Annalisa Murgia and Renato Miguel Carmo

Erscheinungsdatum
Co-Autor Jean-Claude Barbier, Emiliana Armano, Cristina Morini, André Barata, Klaus Dörre
Zusatzinfo 3 Tables, black and white; 8 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Personalwesen
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10 1-5292-2007-6 / 1529220076
ISBN-13 978-1-5292-2007-0 / 9781529220070
Zustand Neuware
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