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DescriptionNeo-liberal policies and institutional changes have produced a huge and growing number of people with sufficiently common experiences to be called an emerging class. In this book Guy Standing introduces what he calls 'The Precariat' - a growing number of people across the world living and working precariously, usually in a series of short-term jobs, without recourse to stable occupational identities, stable social protection or protective regulations relevant to them. They include migrant workers, but also locals. Promotion infoA polemical and hugely influential work of political, social and economic theory which introduces the precariat as an emerging class. ReviewsA very important book. Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Buy Guy Standing's book, The Precariat! Or nick/borrow it! John Harris, The Guardian This important and original book brings out the political dangers, so clear in contemporary America, of failing to address the insecurities of the Precariat. It also suggests the way forward: a reconstruction of the concept of work. Eileen Applebaum, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington DC, USA Guy Standing provides an incisive account of how precariousness is becoming the new normality in globalised labour markets, and offers important guidelines for all concerned to build a more just society. Richard Hyman, London School of Economics, UK Author descriptionGuy Standing is Professor of Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK. He is the author of the sequel to The Precariat, A Precariat Charter (2014) and co-author of Basic Income (2015). Table of contentsPreface to the Revelations edition Previous edition 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 |