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The Precariat

The Precariat 482888 NLFXXX10.1177/1095796013482888New Labor ForumFrase research-article2013 On the Contrary New Labor Forum 22(2) 11 –14 The Precariat: Copyright © 2013, The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Reprints and permissions: A Class or a Condition? sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1095796013482888 nlf.sagepub.com Peter Frase Keywords capitalism, contingent workers, immigrant workers, neoliberalism, working class The claim that work has become more precari- pro-worker politics in the twenty-first century; ous in recent decades has an intuitive appeal, at while the precariat may not be the answer to the least among a layer of young people and activ- issues raised, we should not pretend that any- ists. The concept of the “precariat,” playing on one else has an obvious answer either. the old description of the working class as a Advocates and critics alike often reduce the “proletariat,” attempts to give empirical and definition of the “precariat” to decreasing job sociological content to this intuition. The term tenure—people increasingly move from employer has been widely disseminated by U.K. sociolo- to employer. There has been a robust debate gist Guy Standing, whose book The Precariat: about the degree to which this form of instabil- The New Dangerous Class summarizes a long ity has increased. Kevin Doogan’s http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png New Labor Forum SAGE

The Precariat

New Labor Forum , Volume 22 (2): 4 – May 1, 2013

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© 2013, The Murphy Institute, City University of New York
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482888 NLFXXX10.1177/1095796013482888New Labor ForumFrase research-article2013 On the Contrary New Labor Forum 22(2) 11 –14 The Precariat: Copyright © 2013, The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Reprints and permissions: A Class or a Condition? sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1095796013482888 nlf.sagepub.com Peter Frase Keywords capitalism, contingent workers, immigrant workers, neoliberalism, working class The claim that work has become more precari- pro-worker politics in the twenty-first century; ous in recent decades has an intuitive appeal, at while the precariat may not be the answer to the least among a layer of young people and activ- issues raised, we should not pretend that any- ists. The concept of the “precariat,” playing on one else has an obvious answer either. the old description of the working class as a Advocates and critics alike often reduce the “proletariat,” attempts to give empirical and definition of the “precariat” to decreasing job sociological content to this intuition. The term tenure—people increasingly move from employer has been widely disseminated by U.K. sociolo- to employer. There has been a robust debate gist Guy Standing, whose book The Precariat: about the degree to which this form of instabil- The New Dangerous Class summarizes a long ity has increased. Kevin Doogan’s

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Published: May 1, 2013

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