The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class

Why read it

• You will see how globalisation and the market reforms begun in the nineteen seventies left millions with economic insecurity
• You will stop seeing insecure workers only as victims, since many are looking for something better than the old industrial jobs
• You will understand why the author warns that ignoring this insecure class could feed a dangerous politics, and what agenda he offers instead

Who it is for

• A worker on short contracts wondering why security vanished
• A policy student studying labour and inequality
• A voter trying to make sense of public anger

Contents

1. Preface
2. The Precariat
3. Why the Precariat Is Growing
4. Who Enters the Precariat?
5. Migrants: Victims, Villains or Heroes?
6. Labour, Work and the Time Squeeze
7. A Politics of Inferno
8. A Politics of Paradise

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