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Rethinking economic security in a precarious world
Parfitt, Claire Barnes, Tom
Parfitt, Claire
Barnes, Tom
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Abstract
The introduction to this special issue of Critical Sociology offers an interpretation of recent debates in the precarity literature and the role precarity plays in a wide range of disciplines’ scholarship. It makes the case for a broad conceptualization of precarity, one that recognises many dimensions and sites of precariousness in contemporary life. In addition to providing grounded examples of precarity experienced in this broad sense, this collection of articles focuses on responses to precarity and strategies that individuals, collectives and institutions are taking to address an increasingly precarious life. The collection focuses on Australia, where the authors are based. This affords readers an opportunity to observe the particularities of precarity in Australia, where some elements of the neoliberal welfare state have cushioned, and others have sharpened, people’s experience of volatility and uncertainty.
Keywords
economic sociology, labour, neoliberalism, precariousness, precarity, work
Date
2020
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Journal article
Journal
Critical Sociology
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Volume
46
Issue
4-5
Page Range
487-494
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ACU Department
Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences
Faculty of Education and Arts
Faculty of Education and Arts
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