In his recent work, Guy Standing has identified a new class which has emerged from neo-liberal restructuring with, he argues, the revolutionary potential to cha

This book presents the new Precariat – the rapidly growing number of people facing lives of insecurity, on zero hours contracts, moving in and out of jobs tha

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Guy Standing's immensely i

Roughly 260 million workers in China have participated in a mass migration of peasants moving into the cities, and construction workers account for almost half

The condition of precariousness not only provides insights into a segment of the world of work or of a particular subject group, but is also a standpoint for an