The hegemony of technology manifests itself in all spheres of life, as nearly every intellectual is called to adapt to a multi-media working environment. But none is harder hit than the precariat, for they lack the potential to adjust, many of them having spent their whole ...
What this means is that, whenever energy is accessed for our a use, a proportion of this energy isalwaysconsumed in the access process, and is not available for any other economic purpose. This “consumed in access” component is known in Surplus Energy Economics as theEnergy Cost of Energy...
in France or Nigel Farage’s UKIP/Brexit Party in Britain, or it may be capitalised upon by populists arising from within the traditional parties of the Right, as with Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 U.S. election (‘I love the poorly educated’, Trump famously said after winning th...
Anxiety about living conditions – not only amongst the precariat – is fueled by the logic of capitalism, which necessitates ever increasing consumerism, thereby instilling a lack of contentedness with one’s current material conditions. Capitalism is based on the principle of market valuation: of...
2020. The politics of the excluded: abjection and reconciliation amongst the British precariat. Journal Chinese Sociology 7: 23 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40711-020-00134-7. Article Google Scholar Savage, M., A. Warde, and F. Devine. 2005. Capitals, assets, and resources: some critical ...
Guy Standing’s advance of the term “precariat” has been followed by Andrew Yang running for president on the political position of the end of work. In a way, Yang is the Martin Van Buren of our time (of course Yang was never president, but he is the first to elevate the ...
Note that this indexicality is conspicuously different from the previous ones in the sense that it is deeply rooted in people’s subconscious reaction to the precariat state of educated young people in China (Du 2016), and that it might not be distinctly felt, not even by young people who ...
No longer. Not only has downward mobility become more evident but the poor get poorer, the rich get richer, the older get tenure, the younger join the precariat. Sure, greater equality of opportunity means more women work than ever before, but of all German women in work only one in ...
police brutality, hate crimes, and the raw horrors of urban and rural poverty have divided and ended any sense of “us” perhaps “as artists” or as “the undercommons” or as any cohesive “precariat” perhaps, that might rise up en masse against “the system’s” orders and disorders...
In response, many are nowcalling for a “universal basic income” (UBI)–where the state gives everyone enough to live on. This would put a floor under the class of people we’re calling the “precariat,” people for whom work doesn’t lead to increased financial security. It wouldfree ...