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Post-disaster deterritorialisation and 'roof-centred' recovery: enduring policy impacts on marginalised groups in Brazil. [PDF]

Disasters
Abstract This study critically examines post‐disaster recovery policies in Brazil and their short‐ and long‐term effects on marginalised populations, particularly those living in informal or precarious housing. Drawing on a mixed‐methods investigation conducted in collaboration with the Movimento dos Atingidos por Barragens, the research analyses multi‐
Oyama AC, Lahournat F, Sayama T.
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Through the "iron cage", or a few words about the precariat and the book about it. Review of the book: Toshchenko Zh. T. Precariat: from the Protocol to the new class

Социологическая наука и социальная практика, 2019
Through the "iron cage", or a few words about the precariat and the book about it. Review of the book: Toshchenko Zh. T.
Leonid E. Blyakher, Иванов   +1 more
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The Precariat

, 2011
Neo-liberal policies and institutional changes have produced a huge and growing number of people with sufficiently common experiences to be called an emerging class. In this book Guy Standing introduces what he calls the Precariat - a growing number of people across the world living and working precariously, usually in a series of short-term jobs ...
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SOCIO-ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF PRECARIAT DEVELOPMENT

Socialinis Darbas: Patirtis ir Metodai, 2017
The authors of the article state that the development of precariat is a social phenomenon produced by the neoliberal political and economic project, for the scientific analysis of which both worldwide and in Lithuania, according to the authors ...
ARVYDAS GUOGIS, ADOMAS VINCAS RAKŠNYS
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Politics of Solidarity and Agency in an Age of Precarity

Global Labour Journal, 2016
This article critically examines Guy Standing’s A Precariat Charter by posing three questions: 1) What is the significance of the North/South divide for the global spread of the precariat?
Marcel Paret
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Social and Labor Status of University Teachers: Elite Specialists or Precariat?

Высшее образование в России, 2022
The article presents the analysis of the social and labor situation with teachers of Russian universities. The reform and optimization of the sphere of higher education affects the nature and conditions of employment of teachers of Russian universities ...
I. V. Vorobyova
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¿Por qué el precariado no es un «concepto espurio»?

Sociología del Trabajo, 2018
Tomando como punto de partida un artículo publicado den la New Left Review, y utilizándolo como pretexto, para abrir una discusión más fundada sobre su libro sobre El precariado, el autor discute y matiza sus tesis, abriendo la discusión sobre los temas ...
Guy Standing
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Intimations of Precarity in Twenty-First-Century U.S. Drama: Faltering Voices of the Precariat in Annie Baker’s The Flick

Cultura, Lenguaje y Representación, 2021
While much critical attention as been devoted to the representation of precarity on the European stages, and in British theatre in particular, dramatic texts produced in the United States that concern, depict and represent the lives of members of the so-
Ana Fernández-Caparrós
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O precariado e a luta de classes

Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2014
The world economy is in the midst of a Global Transformation that is producing a new global class structure. A new class is emerging – the precariat – characterised by chronic uncertainty and insecurity.
Guy Standing
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The Precariatization of Zimbabwean Engineers in South Africa

Professions and Professionalism, 2019
This paper discusses how occupational closure of the engineering profession in South Africa left Zimbabwean migrant engineers amongst the precariat ranks. It aims to answer the following research question: what is the nature of precariousness experienced
Splagchna Ngoni Chikarara
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