Mapping Precariousness, Labour Insecurity and Uncertain Livelihoods

Subjectivities and Resistance

Herausgegeben: Armano, Emiliana; Bove, Arianna; Murgia, Annalisa

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The condition of precariousness not only provides insights into a segment of the world of work or of a particular subject group, but is also a standpoint for an overview of the condition of the social on a global scale. Because precariousness is multidimensional and polysemantic, it traverses contemporary society and multiple contexts, from industrial to class, gender, family relations as well as political participation, citizenship and migration.This book maps the differences and similarities in the ways precariousness and insecurity in employment and beyond unfold and are subjectively experi...

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"It is against such expansive theoretical terrain that Armano, Bove and Murgia's edited volume sets out to trace the contours and expand on current conceptualisations. Suitably subtitled Subjectivities and Resistance: An Introduction, the volume considers the structural context of precarious work, yet goes beyond and engages with the grainy, casual and colloquial body of precarious narratives that emerge from the grass-roots and are in danger of being overlooked. The book is divided into three parts, investigating the precarious experience on three different levels and from three different standpoints."
Constantine Manolchev, University of Exeter Business School, UK, Work, employment and society Journal

"Angela Mitropoulos's final, summary chapter is particularly noteworthy as it connects the precarity of labour market structures with the precariousness of existence in a mosaic of markets, state policy, labour valorisation and regulative order. It restates the continued scope for individual resistance in the face of precarious odds, reminding that the volume is equally concerned with past trends, and the direction of future travel."
The British Sociological Association Journal

"It is against such expansive theoretical terrain that Armano, Bove and Murgia's edited volume sets out to trace the contours and expand on current conceptualisations. Suitably subtitled Subjectivities and Resistance: An Introduction, the volume considers the structural context of precarious work, yet goes beyond and engages with the grainy, casual and colloquial body of precarious narratives that emerge from the grass-roots and are in danger of being overlooked. The book is divided into three parts, investigating the precarious experience on three different levels and from three different standpoints."
Constantine Manolchev, University of Exeter Business School, UK, Work, employment and society Journal

"Angela Mitropoulos's final, summary chapter is particularly noteworthy as it connects the precarity of labour market structures with the precariousness of existence in a mosaic of markets, state policy, labour valorisation and regulative order. It restates the continued scope for individual resistance in the face of precarious odds, reminding that the volume is equally concerned with past trends, and the direction of future travel."
The British Sociological Association Journal