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The Making and Unmaking of Precarity : Some Concluding Remarks
Tiina SilvastiMartti SiisiäinenDonatella Della PortaSakari Hänninensubject
PrecariatPower (social and political)PrecarityprekariaattiPolitical economySubject (philosophy)precarizationEthnologyFundamental rightsSociologyContentious politicsdescription
We live in societies in which the making and unmaking of precarity has a structuring power. In the labour market, precarity is created through laws and practices that reduce protections and benefits; but the labour market itself is also the place where precarity can be unmade through (at least partial) de-commodification and re-regulation. Precarity also penetrates people’s lives and mechanisms of identification, with practices of producing stigma but also of resisting it. Not by chance, the making and unmaking of precarity has become a central focus for contentious politics through the definition of the new subject of the precariat, and the struggles against precarity as a stripping of fundamental rights (Sassen, 2006).
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-01-01 |