Form and Essence of Precarization by Work: From Alienation to the Industrial Reserve Army at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

Iderley Colombini

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2020, vol. 52, issue 3, 409-426

Abstract: The vast majority of analyses on precarious labor depart from a sense of exception, either in the 1970s and 1980s or from the financial crisis of 2007–8, where a stable (stable, regulated, unionized) pattern of work levels would cease to be the preponderant factor for the proliferation of a new precarious norm. This reduction of the precariousness of labor leads to a series of misconceptions that prevent the understanding of the new forms and particularities of the processes of domination and exploitation of capitalist sociability at the turn of the twenty-first century.

Keywords: precarious work; industrial reserve army; class struggle; globalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B51 F66 J80 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1177/0486613419882124

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