The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class Special Covid-19 Edition

ISBN-13: 9780755637072 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 256 str.

Guy Standing

Opis

This book introduces the Precariat - the growing number of people facing lives of insecurity, doing work without a future, with an updated foreword for the pandemic era.

Recenzje

A very important book. Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Spis treści

Covid - 19 Preface 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

O autorze

Guy Standing is Professor of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK. He has previously been Professor of Economic Security at the University of Bath, UK, Professor of Labour Economics at Monash University, Australia and Director of the Socio-Economic Security Programme of the International Labour Organization. He is co-president of the Basic Income Earth Network. His recent books include Work after Globalization: Building Occupational Citizenship (2009) and Beyond the New Paternalism: Basic Security as Equality (2002).