Mapping Precariousness, Labour Insecurity and Uncertain Livelihoods: Subjectivities and Resistance

Author:   Emiliana Armano ,  Arianna Bove (Queen Mary University of London, UK) ,  Annalisa Murgia (University of Trento, Italy)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   224
Publication Date:   17 January 2019
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Author:   Emiliana Armano ,  Arianna Bove (Queen Mary University of London, UK) ,  Annalisa Murgia (University of Trento, Italy)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367218744


ISBN 10:   0367218747
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   17 January 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of contributors Mapping precariousness: subjectivities and resistance. An introduction ARIANNA BOVE, ANNALISA MURGIA AND EMILIANA ARMANO PART I 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 Cooperative: 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 Stories of precarious lives JOANNE RICHARDSON 9 Precarious Japan 122 STEFFI RICHTER PART II Resistance: social movements against precariousness 10 The two endings of the precarious movement DIMITRIS PAPADOPOULOS 11 The precariat for itself: Euro May Day 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 MARIBEL CASAS-CORTÉS AND SEBASTIAN COBARRUBIAS PART III 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 Index

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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. The British Sociological Association Journal


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. The British Sociological Association Journal


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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.

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