What appears to be a collection of unstable jobs may represent a deeper reorganization of economic risk.
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class by Guy Standing as our lens, this episode investigates the emergence of a class-in-the-making defined by insecure income, weak employment protections, limited benefits, fragmented careers, and the loss of a stable occupational identity.
Standing argues that labour-market flexibility has allowed corporations and governments to transfer uncertainty onto individuals. Workers increasingly absorb fluctuating demand, temporary contracts, changing schedules, retraining costs, benefit losses, and periods without employment.
The investigation traces the tension between institutional flexibility and personal security, examining risk transfer, the seven forms of labour-related security, the precarity trap, declining collective representation, and the feedback loops connecting insecurity to political fragmentation.
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