Choonara / Murgia / Carmo Faces of Precarity

Critical Perspectives on Work, Subjectivities and Struggles
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-5292-2008-7
Verlag: Bristol University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

The words ‘precarity’ and ‘precariousness’ are widely used when discussing work, social conditions and experiences. However, there is no consensus on their meaning or how best to use them to explore social changes.

This book shows how scholars have mapped out these notions, offering substantive analyses of issues such as the relationships between precariousness, debt, migration, health and workers’ mobilizations, and how these relationships have changed in the context of COVID-19.

Bringing together an international group of authors from diverse fields, this book offers a distinctive critical perspective on the processes of precarization, focusing in particular on the European context.

The Introduction, Chapters 3 and 8, and the Afterword are available Open Access via OAPEN under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Choonara, Joseph

Murgia, Annalisa

Carmo, Renato Miguel

Weitere Mitwirkende

Barbier, Jean-Claude

Armano, Emiliana

Morini, Cristina

Barata, André

Dörre, Klaus

Umney, Charles

Pulignano, Valeria

Morgan, Glenn

Piasna, Agnieszka

Cingolani, Patrick

Bolíbar Planas, Mireia

X. Belvis, Francesc

Gutiérrez-Zamora, Mariana

Hedberg, Charlotta

Holubová, Barbora

Kahancová, Marta

Mattoni, Alice

Hardy, Jane

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Personalwesen, Human Resource Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Cingolani, Patrick
Contributor, Faces of Precarity

Choonara, Joseph
Joseph Choonara is a lecturer in the School of Business of the University of Leicester, UK.

Mattoni, Alice
Alice Mattoni is Associate Professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna.

Carmo, Renato Miguel
Renato Miguel Carmo is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal.

Murgia, Annalisa
Annalisa Murgia is Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Political Science at the University of Milan, Italy.

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