The Making and Unmaking of Precarity: Some Concluding Remarks

Porta, Donatella della; Hänninen, Sakari; Siisiäinen, Martti; Silvasti, Tiina

doi:10.1057/9781137509352_16

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“…Does it matter what the data says? The editors of a recent collection on the theme of precarity suggest not, writing, “precarity cannot be unquestionably grounded in factual evidence” (Della Porta et al 2015: 9). Indeed, one recent approach has been to reconceptualize precarity as an inescapable existential condition.…”

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The Precarious Concept of Precarity

Choonara

2020

Review of Radical Political Economics

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This paper traces the roots of precarity as a concept emerging from French sociological discourse, then permeating through networks informed by Italian autonomism, before re-emerging in the writings of figures such as Guy Standing and Arne Kalleberg. It is shown that, despite the claims of the literature, precarity in employment is not typical in the United Kingdom. Here, temporary employment remains the exception and employment tenure remains stable. This can best be explained by radical political economy. Capital is not interested simply in engendering precarity; it is also concerned with the retention and reproduction of labor power, leading to contradictory imperatives. The resonance of the narrative of precarity, in spite of this, reflects a long retreat from class within radical theory and the insecurities present in working life.

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The Precarious Concept of Precarity

Choonara

2020

Review of Radical Political Economics

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“…In recent years, awareness of the importance of the quality of employment and employment precariousness has grown in Europe. 1 Employment quality should be distinguished from broader job quality, 2 as the latter consists of two subcomponents: (1) intrinsic job characteristics, which are related to the nature of work tasks themselves (e.g., highly demanding, autonomous, dangerous, heavy, toxic), and (2) the employment conditions and employment relations, which can be summarized under the umbrella term “employment quality.” Employment quality can thus be conceived as a set of arrangements surrounding the work task itself. As such, employment quality refers to the employment conditions—i.e., mutual agreements between employees and their employer about the organization of employment in terms of contract, rewards, working hours, etc.…”

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Precarious Employment and Quality of Employment in Relation to Health and Well-being in Europe

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This article presents an overview of the recent work on precarious employment and employment quality in relation to workers' health and well-being. More specifically, the article mainly reviews the work performed in the E.U. 7th Framework project, SOPHIE. First, we present our overarching conceptual framework. Then, we provide a compiled overview of the evidence on the sociodemographic and European cross-country distribution of employment quality and employment precariousness. Subsequently, we provide the current evidence regarding the relations with health and broader worker well-being indicators. A final section summarizes current insights on the pathways relating precarious employment and health and well-being. The article concludes with a plea for further data collection and research into the longitudinal effects of employment precariousness among emerging groups of workers. Based on the evidence compiled in this article, policymakers should be convinced of the harmful health and well-being effects of employment precariousness and (further) labor market flexibilization.

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“…It is also interesting and important to analyse how employability is related to and intertwined with the concept of precariousness. The precariousness of work life and the use of ‘precariat’ is described in the literature to mean ‘connected insecure, volatile or vulnerable human situations that are socioeconomically linked to the labour market dynamics’ (della Porta et al., 2015: 1; see also Kurki et al., 2018). Precariousness itself is not a new concept, but its use has intensified after the global financial crisis in 2008, since when the number of people living with insecure employment is increasing on a global scale (della Porta et al., 2015; Doherty, 2016; Kurki and Brunila, 2014; Kurki et al., 2018; Standing, 2011).…”

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Governing of young people ‘at risk’ with the alliance of employability and precariousness in the EU youth policy steering

Mertanen

Pashby

Brunila³

2019

Policy Futures in Education

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This article focuses on neoliberal governing by the European Union of cross-sectoral youth policies directed at young people ‘at risk’. The aim is to show how the alliance of discourses of employability and precariousness in these policies has emerged and how these discourses operate in policy. In the article, we analyse European Council and European Commission policy documents from 2000 to 2016 by drawing on the idea of discourses and governing with neoliberal political rationality. Our results show that the financial crisis and policy initiatives launched to mitigate its consequences made it possible to mainstream the neoliberal rationality of individual competition and flexibility as an inseparable part of youth policy steering.

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The Making and Unmaking of Precarity: Some Concluding Remarks

Cited by 10 publications

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The Precarious Concept of Precarity

The Precarious Concept of Precarity

Precarious Employment and Quality of Employment in Relation to Health and Well-being in Europe

Governing of young people ‘at risk’ with the alliance of employability and precariousness in the EU youth policy steering

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