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critical perspectives on work, subjectivities and struggles
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
edited by Joseph Choonara, Annalisa Murgia and Renato Miguel Carmo.