updated Thu. March 28, 2024
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Times Higher Education (THE)
March 21, 2018
“The majority recognise that this dispute is about the erosion of employee rights and working conditions across the sector more broadly,” said Dr Oakley, co-founder of an activist platform called The Academic Precariat. “The attack on pensions is consistent with institutional offloading of risk on to staffÃâà...
CommonSpace
March 19, 2018
For younger people in their twenties and thirties the cultural sector in Scotland can at best offer an insecure future as a member of the precariat. “We have to at least acknowledge the cost of this in human terms and culturally in terms of risk-averseness.” The second, Hassan said, was rooted in the need toÃâà...
History News Network (HNN)
March 19, 2018
... of the scrooge-like industrialist, the poor and exploited worker, and the kindly but condescending settlement house reformer; such examples fit all too comfortably alongside contemporary images of a runaway global elite, a helpless (if self-immolating) precariat, and moralistic but ineffectual media scolds.
Emerging Europe
March 19, 2018
In 2011, I predicted that, unless the insecurities of the precariat were addressed, and given priority by politicians and political parties, we would see the emergence of a political monster. It doesn't give me any pleasure that today, sure enough, we're seeing a drift to a neo-fascist, right-wing, authoritarian,Ãâà...
Stuff.co.nz
March 18, 2018
The lecturer talks about the phenomenon of the "precariat", the growing numbers of a loose grouping of people who live unstable and insecure lives. She believes the national housing crisis has played a large part in that, and what is happening in Huntly is just one example of the impact on the smallerÃâà...
Jacobin magazine
March 16, 2018
Likewise, PaP democratically elected its candidates, placing a new generation of activists, representative of the precariat that has paid the highest price for the crisis, at the center. It also relied on very simple and direct language. Though it didn't pay dividends in this month's election, it would be prematureÃâà...
Mountain View Gazette
March 14, 2018
There are an additional nine parties that have names reserved with Elections Alberta but have not yet registered as political parties: @Politics Direct, The Precariat, Hard Working Albertans, Renew Alberta, Western Independence, Alberta Independence, Alberta Freedom Alliance, National Party andÃâà...
OC Weekly
March 8, 2018
In kind, Marx expresses admiration for Engels' classic study of the English working class. The friendship they share becomes the crux of the film. Living life as a precariat long before the term was coined, Marx tries to raise a family with his wife, Jenny, on the unstable income being a radical writer earns.
TES News
March 7, 2018
At the bottom of this new social ladder is the “precariat” class, which Savage describes as “the most deprived class of all with low levels of economic, cultural and social capital. The everyday lives of members of this class are precarious.” While there is little that we teachers can do to improve the immediateÃâà...
The Indypendent
March 2, 2018
The proletariat, in other words, is being replaced by the precariat. Stettner was speaking in January at the National Academy of Social Insurance's (NASI's) public policy conference on “Nonstandard Work and Social Insurance.” Nonstandard work, from home health care aides to Uber gigs to fast-food service, all the way upÃâà...
British Politics and Policy at LSE (blog)
February 24, 2018
Only a handful of European states are currently governed by left-wing governments, and several of the traditionally largest left-wing parties, such as the Socialist Party in France, have experienced substantial drops in support. Jan Rovny argues that while many commentators have linked the left's decline toÃâà...
Vulture
February 20, 2018
The show is about the “precariat” and “geontopower.” I looked them up. The first word is about a generation born during a period of the greatest accumulation of wealth in the history of the world but who nevertheless live in unstable economies. It's worth pointing out that 99 percent of all artists have alwaysÃâà...
Radio New Zealand
September 7, 2017
For New Zealand's 'precariat', life is a daily struggle. They live in barely adequate insecure housing and are in constant fear of losing their income, which is often derived from working more than one job. A new book Precarity: Uncertain, insecure and unequal lives in Aotearoa New Zealand looks at theÃâà...
Irish Times
December 31, 1999
Many of them were too quick to embrace austerity and too slow to come up with coherent responses to automation, the service economy and a world in which it was the precariat, not the proletariat, that was expanding rapidly. For too long the centre-left has shrunk from the populist peddlers of xenophobiaÃâà...
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