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The Precariat. The New Dangerous Class
Jose Taberner Guasp
- Vol. 3, Iss: 2, pp 207-209
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A new model of social class : findings from the BBC's Great British Class Survey Experiment.
Mike Savage,Fiona Devine,Niall Cunningham,Mark Taylor,Yaojun Li,Johannes Hjellbrekke,Brigitte Le Roux,Sam Friedman,Andrew Miles +8 more
TL;DR: The authors used latent class analysis on these variables to derive seven classes of social class in the UK, and demonstrate the existence of an elite class whose wealth separates them from an established middle class, as well as a class of technical experts.
Journal ArticleDOI
Human resource management and employee well-being: towards a new analytic framework
TL;DR: In this article, an alternative approach to HRM that gives priority to practices designed to enhance well-being and a positive employment relationship is proposed, and evidence is presented to support the choice of practices and to argue that these also hold the potential to improve both individual and organizational performance.
Journal ArticleDOI
Workers without employers: shadow corporations and the rise of the gig economy
TL;DR: A growing number of American workers are no longer employed in jobs with a long-term connection with a company but are hired for "gigs" under "flexible" arrangements as "independent contractors" or "consultants," working only to complete a particular task or for defined time and with no more connection with their employer than there might be between a consumer and a particular brand of soap or potato chips as discussed by the authors.
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Hyper-precarious lives: Migrants, work and forced labour in the Global North
TL;DR: The authors unpacks the contested interconnections between neoliberal work and welfare regimes, asylum and immigration controls, and the exploitation of migrant workers, and proposes the concept of precarity as a way to define the precarity of workers.
Journal ArticleDOI
Diversifying and de-growing the circular economy: Radical social transformation in a resource-scarce world
Kersty Hobson,Nicholas Lynch +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the ontological and sociological assumptions of the CE must be open to more 'radical' critique and reconsideration if this agenda is to deliver the profound transformations that its advocates claim are within our collective reach.