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Anthropology Today, 2022
This editorial highlights how the Covid‐19 pandemic has magnified precarity as a global life condition. At the same time, it has also emphasized inequality and exposed how some lives are more precarious than others. Those working in the so‐called informal economy have been proportionally harder hit.
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This editorial highlights how the Covid‐19 pandemic has magnified precarity as a global life condition. At the same time, it has also emphasized inequality and exposed how some lives are more precarious than others. Those working in the so‐called informal economy have been proportionally harder hit.
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South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 2015
This essay argues that global neo-liberalism has undercut the analytic power of the concept of the 'subaltern'. It has instead produced a new category: The precariat. It makes this case first by examining Carlo Levi's Christ Stopped at Eboli, which helped define the subaltern, and then by showing that the aftermath of the 1968 revolutions slowly ...
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This essay argues that global neo-liberalism has undercut the analytic power of the concept of the 'subaltern'. It has instead produced a new category: The precariat. It makes this case first by examining Carlo Levi's Christ Stopped at Eboli, which helped define the subaltern, and then by showing that the aftermath of the 1968 revolutions slowly ...
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Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 2021
Rising inequalities in later life introduce challenges in achieving social justice and equity. With global aging, it is important for gerontological social workers to identify the sources of insecu...
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Rising inequalities in later life introduce challenges in achieving social justice and equity. With global aging, it is important for gerontological social workers to identify the sources of insecu...
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Precarity and pregnancy in Paris
European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, 1999Our purpose was to assess to what extent the absence of health insurance (Social Security) contributes to poor pregnancy outcome.A prospective, population-based study compared the perinatal outcome of women without Social Security (n=243) to a contemporaneous control group (n=243) and to a group of women (n=32) with Social Security but presenting ...
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2023
This study argues that the spaces, limits and strategies in organising domestic workers are informed and shaped by a country’s political economy and labour regime. It is guided by the theoretical frameworks of Robert Cox’s Neo-Gramscian action framework and Social Reproduction Theory in its analysis.
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This study argues that the spaces, limits and strategies in organising domestic workers are informed and shaped by a country’s political economy and labour regime. It is guided by the theoretical frameworks of Robert Cox’s Neo-Gramscian action framework and Social Reproduction Theory in its analysis.
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2022
This chapter takes a look at how diverse groups of economically underprivileged Muslims in Old Delhi negotiate precarity in contemporary India. While both men and women have to negotiate precarity, the chapter focuses on the everyday labor of Muslim women from such families as they struggle to make ends meet and support their families in neoliberal ...
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This chapter takes a look at how diverse groups of economically underprivileged Muslims in Old Delhi negotiate precarity in contemporary India. While both men and women have to negotiate precarity, the chapter focuses on the everyday labor of Muslim women from such families as they struggle to make ends meet and support their families in neoliberal ...
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Media Change—Precarity Within and Precarity Through the Internet
2017The article outlines a perspective on the societal dimension of the ongoing media change. One thesis is that the media change effects a double precarity—whereby precarity is defined as stable instability: The media change effects a stable instability or precarity.
David Kergel, Birte Heidkamp
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