Who is called the precariat; Or are you a precariat too?

The definition of 'precariat' is used for those who work permanently in temporary, precarious jobs, from window cleaners to part-time academics. According to the latest report, urgent action is required against this chronic problem.

By Stephen McWright Published on 13 Ekim 2022 : 13:56.
Who is called the precariat; Or are you a precariat too?

You can be a call center employee with bloodshot eyes, an academic trying to catch up with his part-time class, or a seasonal worker driving to the fields in a trailer. According to the latest report published, you are in the 'precariat' group.

For a while, academics define those who work in precarious jobs within the concept of the precariat. The answer to the question "Who is the precariat?" is given very briefly: It consists of people who are chronically sentenced to temporary work, who often live with anxiety in the ambiguous space between unemployment and the threat of unemployment, and who have chronic insecurity and insecurity in their minds.

In sociology and economics, the precariat is a neologism for a social class formed by people suffering from precarity, which means existing without predictability or security, affecting material or psychological welfare. The term is a portmanteau merging precarious with proletariat.

COMMON FEATURES OF PRECARIAT

• Transience of positions

• The variability, arbitrariness and temporality of job descriptions

• Paying (mostly) below market standards

• Not being included in the social security scheme

• State's ignorance

• The possibility of organizing is pacified

British economist Guy Standing describes class relations in the 21st-century global economic marketplace. He identifies the emergence of what he calls the “precariat” (from the words precarious and proletariat), who occupy a vulnerable position in society.

WHO IS QUALIFIED PRECARIAT?

• A cleaning worker hanging out of an office window and wiping the exterior of the windows

• A call center employee with bloodshot eyes

• A web designer trying to deliver work by connecting to a coffee chain's WiFi network

• Academician who wants to catch up with a part-time course at the university

•Temporary agricultural worker who goes to hazelnuts with a trailer

•Construction worker trying to verify the address to go on the bus…

The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class by Guy Standing
https://garagemca.org/en/programs/publishing/the-precariat-the-new-dangerous-class-by-guy-standing

Defining the precariat

A class in the making
https://www.eurozine.com/defining-the-precariat/