The Precariat
The New Dangerous Class SPECIAL COVID-19 EDITION
(Sprache: Englisch)
This book presents the new Precariat - the rapidly growing number of people facing lives of insecurity, on zero hours contracts, moving in and out of jobs that give little meaning to their lives. The delivery driver who brings your packages, the uber driver...
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This book presents the new Precariat - the rapidly growing number of people facing lives of insecurity, on zero hours contracts, moving in and out of jobs that give little meaning to their lives. The delivery driver who brings your packages, the uber driver who gets you to work, the security guard at the mall, the carer looking after our elderly...these are The Precariat.Guy Standing investigates this new and growing group, finding a frustrated and angry new underclass who are often ignored by politicians and economists. The rise of zero hours contracts, encouraged by fat cat corporations as risk-free employment, and by silicon valley as a way of outsourcing costs and responsibility, has been exacerbated by the COVID pandemic. At the same time, in its experience of lockdown, the western world is realizing the true value of these nurses, carers and key workers.The answer? The return of income security and meaningful work - the principles 20th century capitalism was built on. By making the fears and desires of the Precariat central to economic thinking, Standing shows how concepts like Basic Income are not just desirable but inevitable, and plots the way to a better future.
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Covid - 19 PrefaceAbbreviations1 The Precariat2 Why the Precariat is Growing3 Who Enters the Precariat4 Migrants: Victims, Villains or Heroes?5 Labour, Work and the Time Squeeze6 A Politics of inferno7 A Politics of ParadiseBibliographyIndex
Autoren-Porträt von Guy Standing
Guy Standing is Professor of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK. He has previously been Professor of Economic Security at the University of Bath, UK, Professor of Labour Economics at Monash University, Australia and Director of the Socio-Economic Security Programme of the International Labour Organization. He is co-president of the Basic Income Earth Network. His recent books include Work after Globalization: Building Occupational Citizenship (2009) and Beyond the New Paternalism: Basic Security as Equality (2002).
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Guy Standing
- 2021, 4. Aufl., 256 Seiten, Maße: 14,2 x 21,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
- ISBN-10: 0755637070
- ISBN-13: 9780755637072
- Erscheinungsdatum: 30.07.2021
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Englisch
Pressezitat
A very important book. Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
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