Sentences with phrase «of precariat»

British Professor of Development Studies Guy Standing proposed the concept of the precariat as the new class of insecure workers stemming from the globalisation of the late 1990's.

Voters did not believe that the party which created a mass system of precariat will now get rid of it.

He may have masterfully exploited the despair of the precariat to his own advantage, yet it is the precariat, the working class struggling with chronic and manifold precarity, that is using him as a weapon against the invisible oppressive hand of neoliberalism that has ravaged the middle class since the late 1970s.

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And two is the tendency of rentier capitalism to create the social class that SOAS economist Guy Standing describes as «the precariat».

The Law Commission even suggests this growing legion of precarious workers is on the verge of full - blown class consciousness, preciously calling them the «precariat.»

For there is no contradiction between Trump as master - manipulator and embodiment of the kind of structural violence that his voters suffer from, and his popularity and support among the precariat.

The unholy alliance of Trump with the precariat - now - turned - mob represents one of the most startling challenges to liberalism, not just the neoliberal economic order.

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.

And, as the academic «precariat» grows, said Hackmann, referring to postdoctoral researchers who work on successive contracts without the opportunity to become salaried professors, «so do regimes of competition rather than collaboration, and the pressure to play by business as usual rules persists.»

I'm sure Noam Chomsky would consider indie authors members of the «Precariat.»

«It's the Political Economy, Stupid» functions as a kind of dynamic study center where any flummoxed member of the new precariat who wants to catch up on the global economic crisis and possibilities for resistance can spend a productive afternoon.

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.

Caroline Sawyer's «The Unexpected Precariat», for instance, stands out for discussing Union citizenship from the refreshing angle of fragility.