Quotes About Precarity

Le néo-libéralisme reprend les plus vieilles idées du patronat, sous un message chic et moderne. C'est une "révolution" conservatrice qui veut imposer un retour à une forme de capitalisme sauvage et cynique, qui organise l'insécurité et la précarité, qui se réclame du progrès mais qui glorifie l'archaïque loi du plus fort.

People in the precariat rely very heavily on money wages.

Precariousness and precarity are intersecting concepts. Lives are by definition precarious: they can be expunged at will or by accident; their persistence is in no sense guaranteed

Precarity designates that politically induced condition in which certain populations suffer from failing social and economic networks of support and become differentially exposed to injury, violence, and death.

Precarity also characterizes that politically induced condition of maximized precariousness for populations exposed to arbitrary state violence who often have no other option than to appeal to the very state from which they need protection.

this village was populated by members of the "precariat": temporary laborers doing short-term jobs in exchange for low wages.

The Italian philosopher Paolo Virno says we have moved from having a "proletariat"—a solid block of manual workers with jobs—to a "precariat," a shifting mass of chronically insecure people who don't know whether they will have any work next week and may never have a stable job.

En el mundo globalizado en el que vivimos, la peor dependencia no es la que se basa en la compra de bienes extranjeros, sino la pobreza aunada a la falta de educación de gran parte de la población y la precariedad de las empresas nacionales.

Some people choose their precarity - evidence that precarity is not just a condition of our time, but a response to it. The precariat includes people who have forgone stable employment and retirement savings for temp work and travel and an uncertain future. Their very existence is unsettling, suggesting, as it does, that there might be something worth more than security.

Childhood is a state of mind, whether it's a nostalgic return to innocence or a sudden flashback to unease and dread. If the innocence of childhood is being protected and comforted, the precarity of childhood is when one feels the least protected and comfortable.

The precariat faces chronic uncertainty about what to do, about what incomes to expect, about state benefits that might be their due, about their relationships, their homes, and about the occupations they can realistically expect.

The lack of an integrated life meant that no part of his life recognized the treatment of black people as an important disturbance. To not remember is perhaps not to feel touched by events that don't interfere with your livelihood. This is the reality that defines white privilege no matter how much money one has or doesn't have. From Appalachia to Fifth Avenue, my precarity is not a reality shared.