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Precarity is an ever increasing circle- it feeds off and perpetuates itself. It is without doubt about a practical lack, in particular this is about weak access to stable employment, income and...
Apr 21, 2017 · First, happiness is related to our own interests, whereas moral actions relate to the well-being of others, with the result that we can pursue our personal well-being only within certain defined moral limits. To that extent, morality opposes the pursuit of one’s own interests.
- Corinna Mieth
- 2017
- Engels, Marx, Morris, and The Concept of Precarious Labor
- The Global Reserve Army in The Age of Generalized Precariousness
- Conclusion
- Notes
The theoretical construct of worker precariousness tied to the industrial reserve army of labor had its origin, as indicated above, in classical historical materialism, particularly in the work of Engels, Marx, and Morris. In The Condition of the Working Class in England, Engels wrote: The working class’s general condition thus can be described in ...
The structural basis of Marx’s concept of worker precariousness was the reserve army of labor, the fulcrum of the general law of capitalist accumulation. Against today’s use of “precariousness” or “precarity” as what Seymour calls a “cultural meme,” Marxian theory instead offers an integrated theoretical approach and scientific outlook to working c...
The renewed focus, particularly on the left, on precariousness constitutes a recognition of the harsh reality of capitalism, and particularly of today’s globalized monopoly-finance capital. Concepts like “precarity” and even “precariat” may have a role to play, if it means describing more fully the conditions that characterize the reserve army of l...
Sep 1, 2017 · The upshot is that we cannot separate an organism’s systemic identity from its precarious material realization without losing the capacity to account for the meaning and the intrinsic teleology of life we all know from our personal experience.
- Tom Froese
- t.froese@gmail.com
- 2017
Art and literature give us means to bear witness to other’s vulnerability, as well as our own, but the nature of this expression seems to be itself precarious – in many ways tied to the individual circumstances of its creation, continually risking a loss of signification.
Examples of PRECARIOUS SITUATION in a sentence, how to use it. 20 examples: We are certainly in a precarious situation with the sheer quantity of material that requires…
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Jul 28, 2023 · One’s own employment situation may be considered insecure or at risk, even though there are objectively no risks. Conversely, precarious employment situations can also be subjectively assessed as stable, even though objective indicators would suggest otherwise.
