1st Edition
Mapping Precariousness, Labour Insecurity and Uncertain Livelihoods Subjectivities and Resistance
Introduction
Emiliana Armano, Arianna Bove, Annalisa Murgia
Part 1: Subjectivities: a cartography of experiences
1. The Precariousness of Work in Postcolonial Africa
Franco Barchiesi
2. The Chinese Dream and the Precarity Plateau. Why industrial workers are looking to entrepreneurship
Brandon Sommer
3. Hybrid areas of work in Italy. Hypotheses to interpret the transformations of precariousness and subjectivity
Emiliana Armano and Annalisa Murgia
4. The French Business and Employment Co-operative: An Autonomy Factory?
Marie-Christine Bureau and Antonella Corsani
5. Against Precarity, Against Employability
Ivor Southwood
6. The ‘Academic Career’ in the Era of Flexploitation
George Morgan and Julian Wood
7. Coping with uncertainty. Precarious workers of the Greek media sector
Manos Spyridakis
8. Precarious Lives
Joanne Richardson
9. Precarious Japan
Steffi Richter
Part 2: Resistance: social movements against precariousness
10. The two endings of the precarious movement
Dimitris Papadopoulos
11. The Precariat For Itself: EuroMayDay and Precarious Workers’ Movements,
Alex Foti
12. Fake it until you make it: Prefigurative practices and the extrospection of precarity
Valeria Graziano
13. "Precariedad Everywhere?!" Rethinking Precarity and Emigration in Spain
María Isabel Casas-Cortés and Sebastian Cobarrubias
Part 3: Conceptual outlooks
14. Working for Nothing. The Latest High-Growth Sector?
Andrew Ross
15. Labour, (In-)Dependence, Care Conceptualizing the Precarious
Isabell Lorey
16. Encoding the Law of the Household and the Standardisation of Uncertainty
Angela Mitropoulos
Biography
Emiliana Armano has a PhD in Labour Studies at the Department of Social and Political Sciences in the State University of Milan, Italy.
Arianna Bove is a Lecturer in Politics and Ethics at the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, University of London, UK.
Annalisa Murgia is Associate Professor in Human Resources Management, Leeds University Business School, UK.
"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."
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