In his recent work, Guy Standing has identified a new class
which has emerged from neo-liberal restructuring with, he argues,
the revolutionary potential to change the world: the "precariat."
This, according to Standing, is a class-in-the-making, internally
divided into angry and bitter factions consisting of a multitude of
insecure people, living bits-and-pieces lives, in and out of
short-term jobs, without a narrative of occupational development,
including millions of frustrated educated youth, millions of women
abused in oppressive labour, growing numbers of criminalised tagged
for life, millions being categorised as "disabled" and migrants in
their hundreds of millions around the world. They are denizens;
they have a more restricted range of social, cultural, political
and economic rights than citizens around them . This present book
explores the nature, shape and context of precariat, evaluating the
internal consistency and applications of the concept. Demonstrating
the sheer breadth and depth of application, the chapters cover a
wide-range of topics, from the relationships between precariat and
authoritarianism, multitude (another concept to achieve popular
consciousness), and place as well as the nature of precarious
identities and subjectivities among those working in immaterial
labour. The book concludes with a reply by Standing to reviews of
"Precariat."
This book was published as a special issue of Global
Discourse."
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