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Author:   Jean-Claude Barbier (CNRS Universite Paris) ,  Emiliana Armano (University of Milan) ,  Cristina Morini (Effimera.org, BIN Italia Network) ,  André Barata (UBI – University of Beira Interior)
Publisher:   Bristol University Press
Imprint:   Bristol University Press
ISBN:  

9781529220070

ISBN 10:   1529220076
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   08 August 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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Persuasively ranging from comprehensive analysis to detailed case studies, this is the single most up-to-date survey of the jagged landscape of 21st-century work and the volatile social economy that orbits around it. Andrew Ross, New York University Precarity has not gone away with platform capitalism; it has only got worse. Analytically striking and empirically rich, this book takes us to the frontlines of labour struggles tied to migration, gig work, social movements and political organization. Ned Rossiter, Western Sydney University

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Joseph Choonara is Lecturer in the School of Business of 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 of the University of Milan, Italy, where she coordinates the ERC project SHARE.

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