Mapping Precariousness, Labour Insecurity and Uncertain Livelihoods

Name: Mapping Precariousness, Labour Insecurity and Uncertain Livelihoods | Subjectivities and Resistance
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Subjectivities and Resistance

Emiliana Armano Arianna Bove Annalisa Murgia(Editor)

Routledge (Publisher)

1st Edition

Published on 7. April 2017

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248 pages

978-1-4724-7156-7 (ISBN)

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The condition of precariousness not only provides insights into a segment of the world of work or of a particular subject group, but is also a standpoint for an overview of the condition of the social on a global scale. Because precariousness is multidimensional and polysemantic, it traverses contemporary society and multiple contexts, from industrial to class, gender, family relations as well as political participation, citizenship and migration.

This book maps the differences and similarities in the ways precariousness and insecurity in employment and beyond unfold and are subjectively experienced in regions and sectors that are confronted with different labour histories, legislations and economic priorities. Establishing a constructive dialogue amongst different global regions and across disciplines, the chapters explore the shift from precariousness to precariat and collective subjects as it is being articulated in the current global crisis. This edited collection aims to continue a process of mapping experiences by means of ethnographies, fieldwork, interviews, content analysis, where the precarious define their condition and explain how they try to withdraw from, cope with or embrace it.

This is valuable reading for students and academics interested in geography, sociology, economics and labour studies.

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"It is against such expansive theoretical terrain that Armano, Bove and Murgia's edited volume sets out to trace the contours and expand on current conceptualisations. Suitably subtitled Subjectivities and Resistance: An Introduction, the volume considers the structural context of precarious work, yet goes beyond and engages with the grainy, casual and colloquial body of precarious narratives that emerge from the grass-roots and are in danger of being overlooked. The book is divided into three parts, investigating the precarious experience on three different levels and from three different standpoints."
Constantine Manolchev, University of Exeter Business School, UK, Work, employment and society Journal

"Angela Mitropoulos's final, summary chapter is particularly noteworthy as it connects the precarity of labour market structures with the precariousness of existence in a mosaic of markets, state policy, labour valorisation and regulative order. It restates the continued scope for individual resistance in the face of precarious odds, reminding that the volume is equally concerned with past trends, and the direction of future travel."The British Sociological Association Journal

"This book represents an important work if we are to understand the transformations happening in the world of work, of professional life and, also, its repercussions in everyday life and the sphere of reproduction and care"

Pere Jodar, Mireia Bolibar , CAMBIO 16, Firenze University Press, Vol. 8 * n.16 * 2018

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