The Precariat : : The New Dangerous Class

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 prec...

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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (209 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Preface; List of Abbreviations; 1 The Precariat; 2 Why the Precariat Is Growing; 3 Who Enters the Precariat?; 4 Migrants: Victims, Villains or Heroes?; 5 Labour, Work and the Time Squeeze; 6 A Politics of Inferno; 7 A Politics of Paradise; Bibliography; Index