Precariat

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    People suffering from precarity, especially as a social class; people living a precarious existence, without security or predictability, especially job security. collective, countable, uncountable

    "The global precariat is not yet a class in the Marxian sense, being internally divided and only united in fears and insecurities. But it is a class in the making, approaching a consciousness of common vulnerability."

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"The global precariat is not yet a class in the Marxian sense, being internally divided and only united in fears and insecurities. But it is a class in the making, approaching a consciousness of common vulnerability."

Etymology

Blend of precarious + proletariat, emerging from the socio-economic theories of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and popularized by economist Guy Standing in his book The Precariat (2011).

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