The New Social Division [electronic resource] : Making and Unmaking Precariousness /
della Porta, Donatella.editor.
Silvasti, Tiina.editor.
Hänninen, Sakari.editor.
Siisiäinen, Martti.editor.
This volume addresses issues of precariousness in a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, looking at socio-economic transformations as well as the identity formation and political organizing of precarious people. The collection bridges empirical research with social theory to problematize and analyse the precariat.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; The New Social Division; Contents; List of Illustrations; Tables; Figures; Map; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Editors; Contributors; 1: The Precarization Effect; 1. Precarization as contestable concept; 2. Precarization as modality; 3. Making and unmaking precariousness; 4. Is precariat a class?; 5. Struggle about the precariat; 6. Precarity experience; 7. Precarious struggles; Bibliography; Part I: 'Objective' Class Characteristics; 2: Precarity in Different Worlds of Social Classes; 1. Introduction; 2. Developments in class theory; 3. Class analysis in Russia
4. A survey image of the precariat5. Two different class regimes; 6. Conclusions; Bibliography; 3: Precarity - Minority Condition or Majority Experience?; 1. Precarious concepts; 2. Employment longevity: perception and evidence; 3. Explaining the gap between perception and statistical evidence; 4. The transformation of work and the influence of post-Marxism; 5. Dual labour markets; 6. The labour market impact of capitalist crises; 7. Precarity's further evolution; Notes; Bibliography; 4: A European Analysis of Subsistence Precarization and Precarious Risk; 1. Introduction
Employment, class, and precarization as a transition processHypotheses - subsistence precarization; Hypotheses - precarious risk; Hypotheses - production and welfare regime macro-level variables; 2. Methods; Data; Dependent variables; Independent variables; Macro-level variables; Statistical analysis; 3. Results; Employment, unemployment, and risk of poverty before and during the economic crisis; Regression analyses; Subsistence precarization; Precarious risk; Multilevel analysis with macro-variables; 4. Conclusions; Bibliography
5 Tests for the Underclass: The Social Effects of Activating Labour Market Policy in Germany1. Underclasses and social tests; 2. Unemployment as a test; The system of competition of 'Fordern und Fördern'; Test formats: individual self-responsibility versus collective debasement; 3. Employment orientations of obstinate 'clients'; 4. Structure-forming effects and mechanisms; Cycle of powerlessness, circular mobility, minority status, stigmatization paradox; 5. Conclusion: a society of precarious full-time employment?; Notes; Bibliography
6: The Precarious Status of Migrant Labour in Greece: Evidence from Rural Areas1. Introduction: precarity, precariousness, and migrants; 2. Migrants in Greece: the factual description of a vulnerable situation; 3. The precarious conditions of migrants' presence in Greece; The belated and 'insecure' regularization; The 'lonely' road to social integration; Status and forms of migrant employment; 4. Widespread precariousness in the environment of economic crisis; Employment and unemployment; Income levels and living conditions; 5. The precarious positioning of migrants in rural areas
The Municipality of Vouprassia: a dynamic agricultural region
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This volume addresses issues of precariousness in a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, looking at socio-economic transformations as well as the identity formation and political organizing of precarious people. The collection bridges empirical research with social theory to problematize and analyse the precariat.
Industrial sociology.
Social sciences—Philosophy.
Welfare state.
Political sociology.
Economic sociology.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Sociology of Work.
Social Theory.
Politics of the Welfare State.
Political Sociology.
Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.