Sentences with phrase «in precariat»

Poland's GDP grew over 20 per cent in the last decade, yet Poland is also a champion in precariat, i.e. zero hours contracts that give employees little or no job security and social benefits.

Not exact matches

In electing Trump, the American precariat has manifested perhaps an unconscious collective desire to make the economic elite — the untouchable 0.1 percent that has ravaged their lives — politically accountable.

Yet it is this consistency that places him apart from the precariat that brought him to power; and there is no reason to think that they will not hunt him down in the same way they brought him to power.

The precariat encompasses the informal sector workers in developing countries but also those on zero hour contracts and other forms of insecure work in Europe or Japan.

Guy Standing's attempt to imagine a «Precariat Charter» to address inequalities of power and material insecurity in the contemporary labour market includes proposals for basic income and, as also suggested by Angela Cummine, to develop and use Sovereign Wealth Funds in a manner akin to a Citizens» Trust.

Precariat is presented concurrently with the touring exhibition ArtAIDSAmerica, presented by the Alphawood Foundation in Chicago.

Also — pick up a copy of this month's Art in America for a new feature I wrote called «The Practical Precariat» featuring Jaimie Warren, Brontez Purnell, Jillian Mayer, and comedian Chris Gethard, and come out to a live panel about the piece on Monday, February 12th at Neuehouse in New York.