The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class

Guy Standing

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1472536169 ISBN 13: 9781472536167

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

Described by Noam Chomsky as 'a very important book', Guy Standing's The Precariat has achieved cult status as the first account of this emerging class of people, facing lives of insecurity, moving in and out of jobs that give little meaning to their lives.

Guy Standing warns that the rapid growth of the precariat is producing instabilities in society. It is a dangerous class because it is internally divided, leading to the villainisation of migrants and other vulnerable groups. And, lacking agency, its members may be susceptible to the siren calls of political extremism. He argues for a new politics, in which redistribution and income security are reconfigured and in which the fears and aspirations of the precariat are made central to a progressive strategy.

Since first publication of this book in 2011, the precariat has become an ever more significant global phenomenon, highly visible in the Occupy movement and in protest movements around the world.

In a new preface Guy Standing discusses such developments - are they indicative of the emergence of a new collective spirit, or do they simply reveal the growing size and growing anger of this new class?

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Precariat

Review:

A very important book. --Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Guy Standing provides an incisive account of how precariousness is becoming the new normality in globalised labour markets, and offers important guidelines for all concerned to build a more just society. --Richard Hyman, London School of Economics, UK

Buy Guy Standing's book, The Precariat! Or nick/borrow it! --John Harris, The Guardian