dc.contributor.author | Hardy, Jane | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-09-04T17:02:46Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-09-04T17:02:46Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-01-15 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Hardy , J 2015 , ' The Institutional, Structural and Agential Embeddedness of Precarity: an Engagement with Guy Standing ' , Warsaw Forum of Economic Sociology , vol. 6 , no. 11 , pp. 7-25 . < http://kolegia.sgh.waw.pl/pl/KES/struktura/IFSISE/Strony/Warsaw_Forum.aspx > | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2299/19294 | |
dc.description | This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of the following article: Jane Hardy, ‘The Institutional, Structural and Agential Embeddedness of Precarity’, Warsaw Forum of Economic Sociology, Vol. 6 (11), January 2015. The Version of Record is available online at: http://kolegia.sgh.waw.pl/pl/KES/struktura/IFSISE/Strony/Warsaw_Forum.aspx. | |
dc.description.abstract | Guy Standing’s book The Precariat has had a significant impact in stimulating a debate about the changing nature of work across the broad sweep of the global economy. He advances the notion of precarious workers, originally put forward by Italian autonomist Marxists, to suggest that they constitute a new and separate class. This article reflects on the notion of precarious work and addresses the temporal, historical and analytical weaknesses manifest in many accounts by proposing a political economy synthesis. The discussion takes place through the theoretical lens of embeddedness that takes seriously the structures and institutions of capitalism and the agency of workers individually and collectively. First, it is argued that two key influences on the structural embeddedness of precarity are the spatiality of capitalism and its endemic tendency to crisis. Second, the temporal and institutional embeddedness of precarity is discussed in historical and comparative context. Third, the agential influence on embeddedness is examined with regard to the possibility of the self-organization precarious workers and their potential for forging solidarity with other groups. The article concludes that precarious work is intrinsic to capitalism and therefore the precariat cannot be understood as a class in itself. The implications of this for activists is that solidarity needs to be forged between all groups of workers in order to organise for decent and stable employment. | en |
dc.format.extent | 18 | |
dc.format.extent | 989740 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Warsaw Forum of Economic Sociology | |
dc.subject | precarity | |
dc.subject | embeddedness | |
dc.subject | class | |
dc.subject | worker agency | |
dc.title | The Institutional, Structural and Agential Embeddedness of Precarity: an Engagement with Guy Standing | en |
dc.contributor.institution | Centre for Research on Management, Economy and Society | |
dc.contributor.institution | Global Economy and Business Research Unit | |
dc.contributor.institution | Hertfordshire Business School | |
dc.contributor.institution | Global Work and Employment | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | |
dc.identifier.url | http://kolegia.sgh.waw.pl/pl/KES/struktura/IFSISE/Strony/Warsaw_Forum.aspx | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | |
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