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Organizing around precarity in China [PDF]

, 2023
This chapter explores how labour legislation, the official union ACFTU, labour NGOs, and workers organize around precarity to improve labour conditions of migrant informal workers in a changing China. Historically, it traces the shift from employment and
Howell, Jude
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Afterword: A Pandemic of Precarity [PDF]

, 2022
As the chapters of this collection demonstrate, we confront a world in which there are multiple phenomena – some old, some new, some still emergent – that can legitimately be examined under the headings of precariousness and precarity.
A. Murgia, R. M. Carmo, J. Choonara
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A Language Spoken with Words: Decolonization, Knowledge Production and Environmental Injustice in the Work of Abdulrazak Gurnah

Nalans, 2023
The paper analyses the relationship between decolonization, climate change, and environmental injustice as represented in the writings of Abdulrazak Gurnah. Gurnah’s work is considered an example of decolonial literature.
Ferreira Maria João
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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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Urbanity, Precarity, and Homeland Activism. Burmese Migrants in Global Cities

Moussons, 2013
This article interrogates the link between urbanity and “precarity of place” for non-citizen populations, relying on evidence drawn from the transnational homeland activities of Burmese migrants in two global cities (Bangkok and Tokyo).
Susan Banki
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Towards a social psychology of precarity [PDF]

, 2023
This article introduces the special issue ‘Towards a Social Psychology of Precarity’ that develops an orienting lens for social psychologists' engagement with the concept.
Coultas, Clare, Reddy, G., Clare Coultas, Lukate, J. ; https://orcid.org/, Coultas, C., Lukate, Johanna, Geetha Reddy, Johanna Lukate, Reddy, Geetha   +8 more
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The making of precarity: an ethnography on precarious workers in Auckland, New Zealand

Kōtuitui
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
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Seeing the "Changing Nature of Work" through a Precarity Lens

Global Labour Journal, 2020
This article reviews the concept of precarity and offers critical reflections on its contribution to the study of contemporary labour and livelihoods.
Richard W. Mallett
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From Battery Hens to Chicken Feed: The Perceived Precarity and Identity of Australian Journalists [PDF]

, 2015
There is an industrial revolution taking place in the media sphere, and it is a result of digitalisation. Between mass layoffs and falling word rates, Australian journalists are exposed to multiple potential sources of precarity.
Elks, Kate, Patrick, Holly
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Researchers at risk: precarity, jeopardy and uncertainty in academia [PDF]

, 2021
This book explores the phenomenon of researchers at risk: that is, the experiences of scholars whose research topics require them to engage with diverse kind of dangers, uncertainties or vulnerabilities.
Danaher, Patrick Alan, Mulligan, Deborah L.   +1 more
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