Mapping Precariousness, Labour Insecurity and Uncertain Livelihoods

This book maps the differences and similarities in the ways precariousness and insecurity in employment unfold and are experienced in regions and sectors that are confronted with different labour histories, legislations and economic priorities. Establishing a constructive dialogue amongst different global regions and across disciplines, the authors explore the shift from precariousness to precariat and collective subjects as it is being articulated in the current global crisis. Offering a critical analysis of contemporary forms of production and labour policies, this book aims to understand and develop new conceptual tool and practices from the standpoint of those affected by precariousness.

Emiliana Armano has a PhD in Labour Studies at the Department of Social and Political Sciences in the State University of Milan, Italy. Arianna Bove is a Lecturer in Politics and Ethics at the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, University of London, UK. Annalisa Murgia is Associate Professor in Human Resources Management, Leeds University Business School, UK.

List of contributors Mapping precariousness: subjectivities and resistance. An introduction ARIANNA BOVE, ANNALISA MURGIA AND EMILIANA ARMANO PART I Subjectivities: a cartography of experiences 1 The precariousness of work in postcolonial Africa FRANCO BARCHIESI 2 The Chinese Dream and the precarity plateau: why industrial workers are looking to entrepreneurship BRANDON SOMMER 3 Hybrid areas of work in Italy: hypotheses to interpret the transformations of precariousness and subjectivity EMILIANA ARMANO AND ANNALISA MURGIA 4 The French Business and Employment Cooperative: an autonomy factory? MARIE-CHRISTINE BUREAU AND ANTONELLA CORSANI 5 Against precarity, against employability IVOR SOUTHWOOD 6 The 'academic career' in the era of flexploitation GEORGE MORGAN AND JULIAN WOOD 7 Coping with uncertainty: precarious workers of the Greek media sector MANOS SPYRIDAKIS 8 Stories of precarious lives JOANNE RICHARDSON 9 Precarious Japan 122 STEFFI RICHTER PART II Resistance: social movements against precariousness 10 The two endings of the precarious movement DIMITRIS PAPADOPOULOS 11 The precariat for itself: Euro May Day and precarious workers' movements ALEX FOTI 12 Fake it until you make it: prefigurative practices and the extrospection of precarity VALERIA GRAZIANO 13 'Precariedad everywhere?!' Rethinking precarity and emigration in Spain MARIBEL CASAS-CORTÉS AND SEBASTIAN COBARRUBIAS PART III Conceptual outlooks 14 Working for nothing: the latest high-growth sector? ANDREW ROSS 15 Labour, (in-)dependence, care: Conceptualizing the precarious ISABELL LOREY 16 Encoding the law of the household and the standardisation of uncertainty ANGELA MITROPOULOS Index