A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens
Guy Standing, "A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens"
English | ISBN: 1472505751 | 2014 | 440 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1472505751 | 2014 | 440 pages | PDF | 2 MB
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.
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