Mapping Precariousness, Labour Insecurity and Uncertain Livelihoods

Subjectivities and Resistance
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-21874-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

The condition of precariousness not only provides insights into a segment of the world of work or of a particular subject group, but is also a standpoint for an overview of the condition of the social on a global scale. Because precariousness is multidimensional and polysemantic, it traverses contemporary society and multiple contexts, from industrial to class, gender, family relations as well as political participation, citizenship and migration.

This book maps the differences and similarities in the ways precariousness and insecurity in employment and beyond unfold and are subjectively experienced in regions and sectors that are confronted with different labour histories, legislations and economic priorities. Establishing a constructive dialogue amongst different global regions and across disciplines, the chapters explore the shift from precariousness to precariat and collective subjects as it is being articulated in the current global crisis. This edited collection aims to continue a process of mapping experiences by means of ethnographies, fieldwork, interviews, content analysis, where the precarious define their condition and explain how they try to withdraw from, cope with or embrace it.

This is valuable reading for students and academics interested in geography, sociology, economics and labour studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Armano, Emiliana

Bove, Arianna

Murgia, Annalisa

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of contributors

Mapping precariousness: subjectivities and resistance. An introduction

ARIANNA BOVE, ANNALISA MURGIA AND EMILIANA ARMANO

PART I Subjectivities: a cartography of experiences

1 The precariousness of work in postcolonial Africa

FRANCO BARCHIESI

2 The Chinese Dream and the precarity plateau: why industrial workers are looking to entrepreneurship

BRANDON SOMMER

3 Hybrid areas of work in Italy: hypotheses to interpret the

transformations of precariousness and subjectivity

EMILIANA ARMANO AND ANNALISA MURGIA

4 The French Business and Employment Cooperative: an autonomy factory?

MARIE-CHRISTINE BUREAU AND ANTONELLA CORSANI

5 Against precarity, against employability

IVOR SOUTHWOOD

6 The ‘academic career’ in the era of flexploitation

GEORGE MORGAN AND JULIAN WOOD

7 Coping with uncertainty: precarious workers of the Greek media sector

MANOS SPYRIDAKIS

8 Stories of precarious lives

JOANNE RICHARDSON

9 Precarious Japan 122

STEFFI RICHTER

PART II Resistance: social movements against precariousness

10 The two endings of the precarious movement

DIMITRIS PAPADOPOULOS

11 The precariat for itself: Euro May Day and precarious workers’ movements

ALEX FOTI

12 Fake it until you make it: prefigurative practices and the extrospection of precarity

VALERIA GRAZIANO

13 ‘Precariedad everywhere?!’ Rethinking precarity and emigration in Spain

MARIBEL CASAS-CORTÉS AND SEBASTIAN COBARRUBIAS

PART III Conceptual outlooks

14 Working for nothing: the latest high-growth sector?

ANDREW ROSS

15 Labour, (in-)dependence, care: Conceptualizing the precarious

ISABELL LOREY

16 Encoding the law of the household and the standardisation of uncertainty

ANGELA MITROPOULOS

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Emiliana Armano has a PhD in Labour Studies at the Department of Social and Political Sciences in the State University of Milan, Italy.

Arianna Bove is a Lecturer in Politics and Ethics at the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, University of London, UK.

Annalisa Murgia is Associate Professor in Human Resources Management, Leeds University Business School, UK.