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The Precariat and Class Struggle
, 2015 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, Standing, Guy
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Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.Abstract This article explores the endogenous characteristics of commons within the frameworks of precarity and commons through the urban commons movement in 1970s South Korea. During Korea's compressed capitalist transformation, rural migrants became the urban poor, occupying the lowest position in urban labour hierarchies.
Didi Kyoung‐ae Han, Hyun Bang Shin
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New Technology, Work and Employment, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 73-83, March 2026.ABSTRACT Digital applications integrated into assistant nurses' work phones have long been used in Swedish municipal home care to structure and monitor care tasks. However, few studies have explored how these technologies shape the everyday realities of work.
Marita Flisbäck, Danka Miscevic
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We Hear, for You: The Value of Listening to Our Corporate Colleagues
Economic Anthropology, Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT In his “modest proposal for university reform”, Scroggins (this issue) makes the case that faculty must adapt to the neoliberal reality of higher education by revising their approaches to public scholarship and to pedagogy. I expand on his arguments, focusing on the key role played by university administrators in perfecting the modern ...
Jess Beck
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Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, Volume 26, Issue 1, January 2026.Abstract This study explores the methods and strategies SENCOs use to fulfil their remit. Three aspects of the SENCO's everyday worklife are highlighted: (i) embodying the SENCO role; (ii) the use of school environments; and (iii) professional ethos.
Jonas Udd, Inger C. Berndtsson
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Formulating the academic precariat
, 2019 The notion of the precarious proletariat or ‘precariat’ has been receiving revived attention, due largely to the work of the British economist, Guy Standing.
Mauri, C., Christian Mauri
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Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.Abstract Situated in the manufacturing and construction industries of Durban, South Africa, this paper presents an ethnographic investigation into non‐unionised labour activism emergent from so‐called “organised crime” linked to the patronage politics of the African National Congress. In doing so, this paper traces a twin process of post‐colonial class
Nicholas Abrams
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Industrial Relations Journal, Volume 57, Issue 1, Page 102-110, January 2026.ABSTRACT This article explores how male and female Uber drivers in Johannesburg navigate safety and violence within a high‐crime urban context, highlighting the gendered dimensions of digital platform work. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 30 Uber drivers (15 male and 15 female), the study reveals that while all drivers face threats such as ...
Percyval Bayane
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The political economy of precarious work in the tourism industry in small island developing states [PDF]
, 2014 International tourism is now the predominant industry driving growth in many small island developing states (SIDS). Governments of small islands in the Indian Ocean, Caribbean and Pacific have seemingly put most of their eggs into one development basket –
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