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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 -- Labour-capital relationships and the conjuncture -- Precarious conjunctures -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 7 The Problem with Precarity: Precarious Employment and Labour Markets -- The rise of precarity -- A parsimonious definition -- Precarious employment in selected OECD countries -- The political economy of labour markets -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 8 The Social Foundations of Precarious Work: The Role of Unpaid Labour in the Family -- Introduction -- Moving 'work' beyond the inside and outside the market debate -- Unpaid in paid work: implications for the household -- Unpaid in paid work: implications for reproductive labour -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 9 Precariousness in the Platform Economy -- Introduction -- Employment relations in the platform economy -- The shifting of risks.
Regulatory avoidance -- Fragmentation -- Earnings and economic security -- Precarious work or precarious workers -- Conclusion -- References -- 10 A Pandemic-related Turning Point: Precarious Work, Platforms and Utopian Energies -- The pandemic and outsourcing -- Digitalization, platforms and precarious work -- The halo of precariousness around digital technology -- New precarious subjectivations -- A precarious world? -- References -- PART III Experiences, Concretizations and Struggles -- 11 The Embodiment of Insecurity: How Precarious Labour Market Trajectories Affect Young Workers' Health and Wellbeing in Catalonia (Spain) -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Results -- Diversity of youth labour market trajectories and implications for health -- Explaining the relationship between precarity and young people's health -- Stable trajectories -- Precarious trajectories -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 12 Precarity and Migration: Thai Wild Berry Pickers in Sweden -- Introduction -- Migration and precarity: structure, agency and time -- Precarity of Thai wild berry pickers in Sweden -- Precarious structures -- Precarious agency -- Precarity during COVID-19 -- COVID-19 and the wild berry industry -- Precarious conditions -- Conclusion -- References -- 13 Revisiting the Concept of Precarious Work in Times of COVID-19 -- Introduction -- A multidimensional approach to precarity -- Revisiting precarity in times of COVID-19 -- Health and safety at work -- Telework as a flexible work arrangement -- Precarity as a gendered phenomenon -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 14 Precarious Workers and Precarity through the Lens of Social Movement Studies -- Introduction -- Looking for collective identities in precarious workers' movements -- The organizational features of precarious workers' movements.
The reinvention of public protest in precarious workers mobilizations -- Some reflections on platform labour -- Conclusion -- References -- 15 Organizing and Self-organized Precarious Workers: The Experience of Britain -- Introduction -- Dimensions of precarious work -- Strategies of trade unions and social actors -- Case studies of struggles -- Women carers: low pay, precarious livelihoods -- Cleaners: the dirty work of neoliberalism -- Inhospitable workplaces in the 'hospitality' sector -- The Sports Direct warehouse: hyper-flexibility through agencies -- Lessons and reflections -- Notes -- References -- 16 Afterword: A Pandemic of Precarity -- Ecological strains -- Neoliberalism in question? -- A digital future? -- Precarious agency? -- Conclusion -- References -- Index -- Back Cover.
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Faces of precarity : critical perspectives on work, subjectivities and struggles / / edited by Joseph Choonara, Annalisa Murgia and Renato Miguel Carmo [[electronic resource]]
