precariat
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precariat
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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).
noun precariats
- People suffering from precarity, especially as a social class; people living a precarious existence, without security or predictability, especially job security. 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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noun sociological group
| Español | precariado |
|---|---|
| Français | précariat |
| Deutsch | Prekariat |
| Italiano | precariato |
| Русский | прекариа́т prekariát |
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