Mapping Precariousness, Labour Insecurity and Uncertain Livelihoods
Subjectivities and Resistance
Gebonden Engels 2017 1e druk 9781472471567Samenvatting
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.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
Mapping precariousness: subjectivities and resistance. An introduction
ARIANNA BOVE, ANNALISA MURGIA AND EMILIANA ARMANO
PART I Subjectivities: a cartography of experiences
1 The precariousness of work in postcolonial Africa
FRANCO BARCHIESI
2 The Chinese Dream and the precarity plateau: why industrial workers are looking to entrepreneurship
BRANDON SOMMER
3 Hybrid areas of work in Italy: hypotheses to interpret the
transformations of precariousness and subjectivity
EMILIANA ARMANO AND ANNALISA MURGIA
4 The French Business and Employment Cooperative: an autonomy factory?
MARIE-CHRISTINE BUREAU AND ANTONELLA CORSANI
5 Against precarity, against employability
IVOR SOUTHWOOD
6 The ‘academic career’ in the era of flexploitation
GEORGE MORGAN AND JULIAN WOOD
7 Coping with uncertainty: precarious workers of the Greek media sector
MANOS SPYRIDAKIS
8 Stories of precarious lives
JOANNE RICHARDSON
9 Precarious Japan 122
STEFFI RICHTER
PART II Resistance: social movements against precariousness
10 The two endings of the precarious movement
DIMITRIS PAPADOPOULOS
11 The precariat for itself: Euro May Day and precarious workers’ movements
ALEX FOTI
12 Fake it until you make it: prefigurative practices and the extrospection of precarity
VALERIA GRAZIANO
13 ‘Precariedad everywhere?!’ Rethinking precarity and emigration in Spain
MARIBEL CASAS-CORTÉS AND SEBASTIAN COBARRUBIAS
PART III Conceptual outlooks
14 Working for nothing: the latest high-growth sector?
ANDREW ROSS
15 Labour, (in-)dependence, care: Conceptualizing the precarious
ISABELL LOREY
16 Encoding the law of the household and the standardisation of uncertainty
ANGELA MITROPOULOS
Index
Rubrieken
- advisering
- algemeen management
- coaching en trainen
- communicatie en media
- economie
- financieel management
- inkoop en logistiek
- internet en social media
- it-management / ict
- juridisch
- leiderschap
- marketing
- mens en maatschappij
- non-profit
- ondernemen
- organisatiekunde
- personal finance
- personeelsmanagement
- persoonlijke effectiviteit
- projectmanagement
- psychologie
- reclame en verkoop
- strategisch management
- verandermanagement
- werk en loopbaan