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Globalizations, 2018
This essay offers a stylized account of the trajectory of precarious labour in China over the past seven decades and identifies the various contested terrains constitutive of its politics.
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This essay offers a stylized account of the trajectory of precarious labour in China over the past seven decades and identifies the various contested terrains constitutive of its politics.
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International Labor and Working-Class History, 2017
The transformation of global capitalism, labor, and class relations in our own day is having a marked effect on how we study those subjects historically. Yet, as happens repeatedly in our historical discipline, insights gained from the juxtaposition and recognition of deep structural affinities between the present and the past also carry the risk of a ...
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The transformation of global capitalism, labor, and class relations in our own day is having a marked effect on how we study those subjects historically. Yet, as happens repeatedly in our historical discipline, insights gained from the juxtaposition and recognition of deep structural affinities between the present and the past also carry the risk of a ...
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Soundings, 2011
Workfare is the wrong policy response to the insecurities and inequalities inherent in a flexible market economy. It does nothing to counter these insecurities and inequalities and represents an abandonment of universalistic and solidaristic principles.
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Workfare is the wrong policy response to the insecurities and inequalities inherent in a flexible market economy. It does nothing to counter these insecurities and inequalities and represents an abandonment of universalistic and solidaristic principles.
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2021
White workers occupied a unique social position in apartheid-era South Africa. Shielded from black labour competition in exchange for support for the white minority regime, their race-based status effectively concealed their class-based vulnerability. Centred on this entanglement of race and class, Privileged Precariat examines how South Africa's white
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White workers occupied a unique social position in apartheid-era South Africa. Shielded from black labour competition in exchange for support for the white minority regime, their race-based status effectively concealed their class-based vulnerability. Centred on this entanglement of race and class, Privileged Precariat examines how South Africa's white
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2015
In this article, Henry discusses his ideas with Petar Jandrić.
Giroux, H., Jandrić, P.
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In this article, Henry discusses his ideas with Petar Jandrić.
Giroux, H., Jandrić, P.
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2018
This chapter analyzes the rise of “taskers” in the global precariat as digital platforms commodify labor through gig and crowdwork systems. It explains how platform capitalism redefines employment by classifying workers as independent contractors, stripping them of protections while shifting costs, risks, and surveillance onto them.
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This chapter analyzes the rise of “taskers” in the global precariat as digital platforms commodify labor through gig and crowdwork systems. It explains how platform capitalism redefines employment by classifying workers as independent contractors, stripping them of protections while shifting costs, risks, and surveillance onto them.
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Authoritarianism and the precariat
Global Discourse, 2013This article traces present-day policy debates on precarious employment to the nineteenth century. Liberal and paternalist versions of state authority emerged as responses to early capitalist development, and precariousness was an issue that contributed to the differentiation between them.
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