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Political Economic Transformation and Contentious Labour Politics: The Case of South Korea

open access: yesSociology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT With the recent Yoon Suk Yeol presidency, contentious labour politics in South Korea has returned to the public spotlight. Despite being a consolidated democracy and a highly developed economy, South Korea continues to exhibit contentious and combative labour politics. This article reviews both the recent and historical research which examines
Christopher Khatouki
wiley   +1 more source

QUALITATIVE CHANGE IN THE PRECARIAT AS A POTENTIAL CONSEQUENCE OF PROGRESSIVE TECHNO-SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

open access: yesЕпістемологічні дослідження у філософії, соціальних і політичних науках
The purpose of this work: an attempt to formulate a new approach to understanding the precariat, which will ensure the development of this social class.
Дмитро НІКОЛЕНКО
doaj   +1 more source

The making of precarity: an ethnography on precarious workers in Auckland, New Zealand

open access: yesKōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Volume 20, Issue 4, Page 1208-1228, December 2025.
ABSTRACT The following article focuses on the everyday struggles of precarious workers in Auckland, New Zealand. As an excerpt from an ethnography on lived precarity in Auckland City, it reveals structural constraints that precarious workers face daily.
Marko Galič
wiley   +1 more source

A Global Migrant Precariat : Labour, Citizenship and Space for Civil Society

open access: yes, 2013
The paper pursues a critical understanding of the dual signification of ‘precarity’. ‘The authors explorewhat ‘precarity’ as a concept may potentially offer studies of a changing contemporary politicaleconomy of migration. They discuss shifting trends in
Schierup, Carl-Ulrik   +3 more
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The labour digital divide: digital dimensions of labour market segmentation

open access: yesWork Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, 2020
This paper investigates digitalisation in labour activities within the Spanish population, with the aim of examining its extent and characteristics in relation to the digital divide at work, focusing particularly on access to and ...
Daniel Calderón-Gómez   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

From denizens to citizens: forging a precariat charter

open access: yes, 2015
Today’s migrants are an integral part of the global precariat, this chapter argues. This involves millions of people flitting among insecure jobs without an occupational identity or secure access to social benefits. Precarians are ‘denizens’, rather than
Standing, Guy
core   +1 more source

The phenomenon of the precariat in the Polish labour market during Poland’s membership in the European Union

open access: yesAnnales Etyka w Życiu Gospodarczym, 2017
Studies of the scale of unemployment in Poland and in Europe conducted in recent years lead to the conclusion that one of the largest and growing problems of the modern labour market is the unemployment rate among young people. An unfavourable phenomenon
Katarzyna Cymbranowicz
doaj   +1 more source

Breaking-up the ‘Precariat’: Personalisation, Differentiation and Deindividuation in Precarious Work Groups [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Much-debated and researched, the subject of precarious work remains at the forefront of academic and policy discourses. A development of current interest is the reported growth of employment flexibility and increase in non-standard and atypical work ...
D Lewis (9894266)   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Derivative terms with the meaning of new social strata in English and Russian sociological discourse

open access: yesRussian Journal of Linguistics
In periods of social transformation, the analysis of neologisms introduced into academic discourse to denote societal strata possesses a particular linguistic and interdisciplinary significance.
Tatiana M. Shkapenko, Elena N. Strelchuk
doaj   +1 more source

Bad Education

open access: yesLatin American Literary Review, 2017
In this article I study the U.S. 2005 documentary film, The Devil’s Miner, co-produced  by Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani. Like many other internationally produced documentary films of this sort, it combines an ethnographic view of its subject with a
Debra A. Castillo
doaj   +1 more source

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