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The term is a neologism obtained by merging precarious with proletariat. [5] The precariat class has been emerging in advanced societies such as Japan, where it includes over 20 million so-called "freeters". [6] The young precariat class in Europe became a serious issue in the early part of the 21st century. [7]
The term is a portmanteau merging precarious with proletariat. [ 1 ] Unlike the proletariat class of industrial workers in the 20th century who lacked their own means of production and hence sold their labor to live, members of the precariat are only partially involved in labor and must undertake extensive unremunerated activities that are ...
[4] [5] Precarious work is ultimately a result of a profit driven capitalist organization of work in which employment is largely understood as a cost that needs to be reduced. [6] The social and political consequences vary greatly in terms of gender, age, race, and class and result in varying degrees of inequality and freedom.
The RHINO (Retour des Habitants dans les Immeubles Non-Occupés, in English: Return of Inhabitants to Non-Occupied Buildings) was a 19-year-long squat in Geneva. It occupied two buildings on the Boulevard des Philosophes, a few blocks away from the main campus of the University of Geneva .
President-elect Donald Trump is poised to seize greater control of the federal government than any modern president before him when he takes office on Monday, charging ahead with plans to ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Tuesday acknowledged it accidentally fired "several" employees to combat the bird flu and is working to rehire them.
Psychology research has endorsed the concept of "precarious manhood", in which males face social pressures to publicly demonstrate their manliness. [1] Under precarious manhood, threats to masculinity can result in a loss of one's status as a man. [2] Unlike femininity, masculinity is thought to be "elusive and tenuous," needing to be proven ...
Mexico's president said on Wednesday she has not agreed to accept non-Mexican migrants seeking asylum in the United States, a day after her new U.S. counterpart announced the return of a program ...