This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open
Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
Guy Standing's immensely influential 2011 book introduced the
Precariat as an emerging mass class, characterized by inequality and
insecurity. Standing outlined the increasingly global nature of the
Precariat as a social phenomenon, especially in the light of the
social unrest characterized by the Occupy movements. He outlined the
political risks they might pose, and at what might be done to diminish
inequality and allow such workers to find a more stable labour
identity. His concept and his conclusions have been widely taken up by
thinkers from Noam Chomsky to Zygmunt Bauman, by political activists
and by policy-makers. This new book takes the debate a stage further,
looking in more detail at the kind of progressive politics that might
form the vision of a Good Society in which such inequality, and the
instability it produces, is reduced. A Precariat Charter discusses how
rights - political, civil, social and economic - have been denied to
the Precariat, and argues for the importance of redefining our social
contract around notions of associational freedom, agency and the
commons.
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From Denizens to Citizens
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781472507983
Publisert
2015
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Bloomsbury UK
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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