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Author : Alexandra Perisic
Release : 2019-10-03
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 520/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Precarious Crossings by : Alexandra Perisic
Download or read book Precarious Crossings written by Alexandra Perisic. This book was released on 2019-10-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the underlying precarity in twenty-first-century immigrant fiction and reveals the contradictions inherent in neoliberalism as an ideology.
Author : Judith Bessant
Release : 2017-05-08
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 188/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Precarious Generation by : Judith Bessant
Download or read book The Precarious Generation written by Judith Bessant. This book was released on 2017-05-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on a wealth of evidence including young people’s own stories, to document how they are now faring in increasingly unequal societies like America, Britain, Australia, France and Spain. It points to systematic generational inequality as those born since 1980 become the first generation to have a lower standard of living than previous generations. While governments and experts typically explain this by referring to globalization, new technologies, or young people’s deficits, the authors of this book offer a new political economy of generations, which identifies the central role played by governments promoting neoliberal policies that exacerbate existing social inequalities based on age, ethnicity, gender and class. The book is a must read for social science students, human service workers and policy-makers and indeed for anyone interested in understanding the impact of government policy over the last 40 years on young people.
Author : Isabell Lorey
Release : 2015-02-03
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 975/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis State of Insecurity by : Isabell Lorey
Download or read book State of Insecurity written by Isabell Lorey. This book was released on 2015-02-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Years of remodelling the welfare state, the rise of technology, and the growing power of neoliberal government apparatuses have established a society of the precarious. In this new reality, productivity is no longer just a matter of labour, but affects the formation of the self, blurring the division between personal and professional lives. Encouraged to believe ourselves flexible and autonomous, we experience a creeping isolation that has both social and political impacts, and serves the purposes of capital accumulation and social control. In State of Insecurity, Isabell Lorey explores the possibilities for organization and resistance under the contemporary status quo, and anticipates the emergence of a new and disobedient self-government of the precarious.
Author : Judith Butler
Release : 2020-10-13
Genre : Political Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 035/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Precarious Life by : Judith Butler
Download or read book Precarious Life written by Judith Butler. This book was released on 2020-10-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her most impassioned and personal book to date, Judith Butler responds in this profound appraisal of post-9/11 America to the current US policies to wage perpetual war, and calls for a deeper understanding of how mourning and violence might instead inspire solidarity and a quest for global justice.
Author : Michael Curtin
Release : 2016-02-17
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 852/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Precarious Creativity by : Michael Curtin
Download or read book Precarious Creativity written by Michael Curtin. This book was released on 2016-02-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Precarious Creativity examines the seismic changes confronting media workers in an age of globalization and corporate conglomeration. This pathbreaking anthology peeks behind the hype and supposed glamor of screen media industries to reveal the intensifying pressures and challenges workers face. The authors take on crucial issues and provide insightful case studies of workplace dynamics regarding creativity, collaboration, exploitation, and cultural difference. Furthermore, they investigate working conditions and organizing efforts on all six continents, offering comprehensive analysis of contemporary screen media labor in places such as Lagos, Prague, Hollywood, and Hyderabad, across a range of job categories that includes visual effects, production services, and adult entertainment. With contributions from John Caldwell, Vicki Mayer, Herman Gray, Tejaswini Ganti, and others, this collection offers timely critiques of media globalization and broader debates about labor, creativity, and precarity.
