A precariat charter : from denizens to citizens / Guy Standing.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Standing, Guy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Occupy movement.

Precarious employment.

Social policy.

Work.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (388 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"Guy Standing's immensely influential 2011 book introduced the Precariat as an emerging mass class, characterized by inequality and insecurity. Standing outlined the increasingly global nature of the Precariat as a social phenomenon, especially in the light of the social unrest characterized by the Occupy movements. He outlined the political risks they might pose, and at what might be done to diminish inequality and allow such workers to find a more stable labour identity. His concept and his conclusions have been widely taken up by thinkers from Noam Chomsky to Zygmunt Bauman, by political activists and by policy-makers. This new book takes the debate a stage further-looking in more detail at the kind of progressive politics that might form the vision of a Good Society in which such inequality, and the instability it produces is reduced. A Precariat Charter discusses how rights - political, civil, social and economic - have been denied to the Precariat, and at the importance of redefining our social contract around notions of associational freedom, agency and the commons. The ecological imperative is also discussed - something that was only hinted at in Standing's original book but has been widely discussed in relation to the Precariat by theorists and activists alike"--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Introduction

1. The Precariat

2. How Rights are Denied - Political, Civil and Cultural

3. How Rights are Denied - Economic and Social

4. Occupational Insecurity

5. A Charter for Liberty

6. A Charter for Fraternity

7. A Charter for Equality

8. The Ecological Imperative.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781472507983

1472507983

9781472508478

1472508475

9781472510631

1472510631

OCLC:

895073044

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access