The words 'precarity' and 'precariousness' are widely used when discussing work, social conditions and experiences. However, there is no consensus on their meaning or how best to use them to explore social changes.

This book shows how scholars have mapped out these notions, offering substantive analyses of issues such as the relationships between precariousness, debt, migration, health and workers' mobilizations, and how these relationships have changed in the context of COVID-19.

Bringing together an international group of authors from diverse fields, this book offers a distinctive critical perspective on the processes of precarization, focusing in particular on the European context.

The Introduction, Chapters 3 and 8, and the Afterword are available Open Access via OAPEN under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

About the Author

Joseph Choonara is Lecturer in the School of Business at the University of Leicester, UK.

Renato Miguel Carmo is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal.

Annalisa Murgia is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Milan, Italy, where she coordinates the ERC project SHARE.

Book Information
ISBN 9781529220070
Author Jean-Claude Barbier
Format Hardback
Page Count 256
Imprint Bristol University Press
Publisher Bristol University Press