The Precariat : The New Dangerous Class
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| Autore: |
Standing Guy
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| Titolo: |
The Precariat : The New Dangerous Class
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| Pubblicazione: | London, : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 331.554 |
| Soggetto topico: | Casual labor |
| Minimum wage | |
| Precarious employment | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; Preface; List of Abbreviations; 1 The Precariat; 2 Why the Precariat Is Growing; 3 Who Enters the Precariat?; 4 Migrants: Victims, Villains or Heroes?; 5 Labour, Work and the Time Squeeze; 6 A Politics of Inferno; 7 A Politics of Paradise; Bibliography; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Neo-liberal policies and institutional changes have produced a huge and growing number of people with sufficiently common experiences to be called an emerging class. In this book Guy Standing introduces what he calls the Precariat - a growing number of people across the world living and working precariously, usually in a series of short-term jobs, without recourse to stable occupational identities, stable social protection or protective regulations relevant to them. They include migrant workers, but also locals. Standing argues that this class of people could produce new instabilities in socie |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Precariat |
| ISBN: | 1-283-19508-9 |
| 9786613195081 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910597896703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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