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Author Standing, Guy.

Title The precariat : the new dangerous class / by Guy Standing
Published London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 198 pages)
Contents The precariat -- Why the precariat is growing -- Who enters the precariat? -- Migrants: victims, villains or heroes? -- Labour, work and the time squeeze -- A politics of inferno -- A politics of paradise
Summary "Neo-liberal policies and institutional changes have produced a huge and growing number of people with sufficiently common experiences to be called an emerging class. In this book Guy Standing introduces what he calls the Precariat - a growing number of people across the world living and working precariously, usually in a series of short-term jobs, without recourse to stable occupational identities or careers, stable social protection or protective regulations relevant to them. They include migrants, but also locals. Standing argues that this class of people could produce new instabilities in society. They are increasingly frustrated and dangerous because they have no voice, and hence they are vulnerable to the siren calls of extreme political parties. He outlines a new kind of good society, with more people actively involved in civil society and the precariat re-engaged. He goes on to consider one way to a new better society -- an unconditional basic income for everyone, contributed by the state, which could be topped up through earned incomes"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-190) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Precarious employment.
Casual labor.
Minimum wage.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Casual labor
Minimum wage
Precarious employment
Anställningsförhållanden -- Storbritannien.
Anställningsförhållanden -- Förenta staterna.
Arbetsmarknadspolitik -- Storbritannien.
Arbetsmarknadspolitik -- Förenta staterna.
Tidsbegränsad anställning.
Globalisering -- sociala aspekter.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781849664547
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