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The Precariat : the New Dangerous Class

Guy Standing (Author)
eBook, English, 2016
Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2016
1 online resource (248 pages).
9781474294171, 9781474294188, 1474294170, 1474294189
960964804
Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface to the Bloomsbury Revelations Edition; Preface to the First Edition; List of Abbreviations; Chapter 1: The Precariat; The precariat stirs; The precariat stirred; Globalisationâ#x80;#x99;s child; Defining the precariat; Forms of labour security under industrial citizenship; Labour, work, play and leisure; Varieties of precariat; Precariatisation; The precariatised mind; Anger, anomie, anxiety and alienation; Concluding remarks; Chapter 2: Why the Precariat is Growing; The Global Transformation. The sirens of labour flexibility: Labour re-commodificationPrecarious unemployment; The financial shock; Dismantling the public sector; The subsidy state: Bane of the precariat; The shadow economy; The decline of social mobility; Conclusions; Chapter 3: Who Enters the Precariat?; Women: Feminisation of living?; Youth: Urban nomads; Old agers: Groaners and grinners; Ethnic minorities; The â#x80;#x98;disabledâ#x80;#x99;: A concept under reconstruction?; The criminalised: Precariat from behind bars; Concluding points; Chapter 4: Migrants: Victims, Villains or Heroes?; The new denizens. The precariat as a floating reserveFrom queuing to hurdles?; Migrants as cheap labour in developing countries; The emerging labour export regimes; Concluding reflections; Chapter 5: Labour, Work and the Time Squeeze; What is work?; The tertiary workplace; Tertiary time; Labour intensification; Work-for-labour; Tertiary skill; Work-for-reproduction; Youth and â#x80;#x98;connectivityâ#x80;#x99;; The leisure squeeze; Concluding points; Chapter 6: A Politics of Inferno; The panopticon society; Making the precariat â#x80;#x98;happyâ#x80;#x99;; The therapy state; Workfare and conditionality; Demonising the precariat. Thinning democracy and neo-fascismConclusions; Chapter 7: A Politics of Paradise; Make denizenship fair; Recovering identities; Rescuing education; Work, not just labour; Full labour commodification; Occupational freedom; Work rights; Combating workfare and conditionality; Associational freedom: The precariatâ#x80;#x99;s agency; Reviving equality; A basic income; Redistributing security; Redistributing financial capital; Gaining control of time; Recovering the commons; Leisure grants; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index