Sentences with word «precariat»

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

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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.»

The precariat is everywhere.

In fact, Trump's chutzpah makes him particularly suitable a voice for the deep grievances of the precariat, which he despises and humiliates, even as his proposed solutions of unregulated capitalism and chaotic protectionism are more likely to impoverish rather than improve their lot.

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.

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.

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.

Tags: precariat, basic income, Guy Standing, Social Democracy, Policy Network, precarity trap, centre - left, populism, class fragmentation, squeezed middle

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.

The precariat is not fertile ground for revolution but their desperate desire for stability and hope pivots them towards dangerous ventures.

Standing has being criticized for describing the precariat as dangerous class in the Marxian tradition.

Inequality is a fact of life in capitalism so the precariat if it exists is nothing new.

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.

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.»

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

Precariat, curated by Ariel Gentalen, showcases artwork by nine Chicago - based artists.