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A Precariat Charter. From Denizens to Citizens

Door Guy Standing

Categorie	Politiek & Staatsinrichting
Boeknummer	#266482
Titel	A Precariat Charter. From Denizens to Citizens
Auteur	Standing, Guy
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	London, Bloomsbury
Jaar van uitgave	2014
ISBN10	1472510399
ISBN13	9781472510396
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www. bloomsburycollections. com. Guy Standing's immensely influential 2011 book introduced the Precariat as an emerging mass class, characterized by inequality and insecurity. Standing outlined the increasingly global nature of the Precariat as a social phenomenon, especially in the light of the social unrest characterized by the Occupy movements. He outlined the political risks they might pose, and at what might be done to diminish inequality and allow such workers to find a more stable labour identity. His concept and his conclusions have been widely taken up by thinkers from Noam Chomsky to Zygmunt Bauman, by political activists and by policy-makers. This new book takes the debate a ... (Lees verder)stage further, looking in more detail at the kind of progressive politics that might form the vision of a Good Society in which such inequality, and the instability it produces, is reduced. A Precariat Charter discusses how rights - political, civil, social and economic - have been denied to the Precariat, and argues for the importance of redefining our social contract around notions of associational freedom, agency and the commons.
Pagina's	424
Conditie	Als nieuw
Prijs	€ 15,00

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