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Rethinking informal labor in peripheral capitalism: the dynamics of surplus, market, and spatiality
Shahram Azhar,Danish Khan +1 more
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In this article, the authors present a critique of the discourse of precarity that assumes that regulated era labor relations in advanced capitalist economies represent the norm, while "irregular work" represents a...Abstract:
The paper presents a critique of the discourse of precarity that assumes that regulated era labor relations in advanced capitalist economies represent the norm, while ‘irregular work’ represents a ...read more
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The precariat pandemic: Exploitation overshadowed by COVID-19 and workers’ strategies in Poland
Paweł Żuk,Piotr Żuk +1 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors analyzed the mechanisms used by employers towards employees, as well as the adaptation strategies applied by those in precarious employment in Poland during the COVID-19 pandemic and concluded that under the conditions of post-pandemic capitalism, the number of the precariat will grow and the neoliberal system will want to retain as many of the anti-worker solutions introduced in the shadow of the pandemic as possible.
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The making of labour precarity: three explanatory approaches and their relationship
TL;DR: The research field of labour precarity is loaded with largely isolated empirical studies focusing on specific forms of precarious labour as mentioned in this paper, and this article is a preliminary attempt towards a more system...
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Precarious Work, Insecure Workers: Employment Relations in Transition
TL;DR: The growth of precarious work since the 1970s has emerged as a core contemporary concern within politics, in the media, and among researchers as discussed by the authors, and it contrasts with the re...
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The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis
TL;DR: The growth within the capitalist world-economy of the industrial sector of production, the so-called industrial revolution, was accompanied by a very strong current of thought which defined this change as both a process of organic development and of progress.
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The socio-spatial dialectic
TL;DR: In this article, a socio-spatial dialectic is introduced as a means of reopening the debate and calling for the explicit incorporation of the social production of space in Marxist analysis as something more than an epiphenomenon.
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The Precariat: A Class or a Condition?
TL;DR: The concept of the precariat has been widely disseminated by U.K. sociologist Guy Standing, whose book The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class summarizes a long career of investigation into the changing nature of waged work.