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

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Choonara, Joseph (Editor), Murgia, Annalisa (Editor), Carmo, Renato Miguel do, 1971- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, 2022.
Subjects:
Precarious employment.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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