Book:
General Theory of the Precariat

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dc.creatorFoti, Alex
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-07T09:23:54Z
dc.date.available2023-02-07T09:23:54Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractFrom the fast-food industry to the sharing economy, precarious work has become the norm in contemporary capitalism, like the anti-globalization movement predicted it would. This book describes how the precariat came into being under neoliberalism and how it has radicalized in response to crisis and austerity. It investigates the political economy of precarity and the historical sociology of the precariat, and discusses movements of precarious youth against oligopoly and oligarchy in Europe, America, and East Asia. Foti covers the three fundamental dates of recent history: the financial crisis of 2008, the political revolutions of 2011, and the national-populist backlash of 2016, to present his class theory of the precariat and the ideology of left-populist movements. Building a theory of capitalist crisis to understand the aftermath of the Great Recession, he outlines political scenarios where the precariat can successfully fight for emancipation, and reverse inequality and environmental destruction. Written by the activist who put precarity on the map of radical thinking, this is the first work proposing a complete theory of the precariat in its actuality and potentiality.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19244
dc.identifier.isbnisbn:978-94-92302-18-2
dc.identifier.urihttps://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/general-theory-of-the-precariat/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20418
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherInstitute of Network Cultures
dc.publisher.placeAmsterdam
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectTheoryen
dc.subjectEconomyen
dc.subjectPrecariaten
dc.subjectNeoliberalismen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.titleGeneral Theory of the Precariaten
dc.typebook
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeBooken
local.academicbookseriesTheory on Demand
local.coverpage2023-02-07T11:40:39
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/general-theory-of-the-precariat/
local.source.volume25

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