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The Pragmatics of Precarious Work: Security and Vulnerability in the Pandemic Economy book cover

1st Edition

The Pragmatics of Precarious Work Security and Vulnerability in the Pandemic Economy

By Krzysztof Z. Jankowski Copyright 2026
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge
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Drawing on data collected in London’s precarious labour market during the COVID- 19 pandemic, this book explores the pragmatic actions of precarious work that produce simultaneous security and vulnerability. The analysis spans the full scope of precarious working: procedures of job searching and applying, conducting duties and becoming acclimatised to the workplace, and exercises of chaining... Read more

Introduction: The Precarious End to Fordist Security

Part One: Being Contingent

1. The Consistency of Precarious Work

2. The Uncertainty of Precarious Job Offers

3. Denizens on the Contingent Landscape

Part Two: Filling In

4. The Certainty of Temporary Workplaces

5. The Face of Precarity: When a Temporary Job Stabilises

Part Three: Surfing

6. Transition as Norm: Surfing the Contingent Landscape

7. Continuing, Exit and Recursion: The Boundary of Precarity

Conclusion: The Pragmatics and Categories of Precarious Work

Biography

Krzysztof Z. Jankowski is a social theorist and ethnographer from Dunedin, New Zealand. His research interrogates the structuring of societal change through a range of focuses, including global mobilities, global consumer culture, urban morphology and, in this text, the instabilities of employment.

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