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Labour geography 1: Towards a geography of precarity?
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This article examined the relationship between continued growth in the sub-field of labour geography, especially in research on migration, and the concept of precarity, and found that an increasingly domi...Abstract:
This progress report examines the relationship between continued growth in the sub-field of labour geography, especially in research on migration, and the concept of precarity. An increasingly domi...read more
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The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
TL;DR: In this paper, Esping-Andersen distinguishes three major types of welfare state, connecting these with variations in the historical development of different Western countries, and argues that current economic processes such as those moving toward a post-industrial order are shaped not by autonomous market forces but by the nature of states and state differences.
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Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that it is acceptable, even necessary, to grieve some lives, while others are not valued or are even incomprehensible as lives at all, and argue against the rhetorical use of the charge of anti-semitism to quell public debate.
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The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class
TL;DR: For the first time in history, the mainstream left has no progressive agenda as mentioned in this paper, and it has forgotten a basic principle that every progressive political movement has been built on the anger, needs and aspirations of the emerging major class.
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Migration, immigration controls and the fashioning of precarious workers:
TL;DR: In particular, the construction of institutionalised uncertainty, together with less formalised migratory processes, help produce "precarious workers" over whom employers and labour users have particular mechanisms of control as discussed by the authors.