Table of Contents

List of contributors

Mapping precariousness: subjectivities and resistance. An introduction

ARIANNA BOVE, ANNALISA MURGIA AND EMILIANA ARMANO

PART I Subjectivities: a cartography of experiences

1 The precariousness of work in postcolonial Africa

FRANCO BARCHIESI

2 The Chinese Dream and the precarity plateau: why industrial workers are looking to entrepreneurship

BRANDON SOMMER

3 Hybrid areas of work in Italy: hypotheses to interpret the

transformations of precariousness and subjectivity

EMILIANA ARMANO AND ANNALISA MURGIA

4 The French Business and Employment Cooperative: an autonomy factory?

MARIE-CHRISTINE BUREAU AND ANTONELLA CORSANI

5 Against precarity, against employability

IVOR SOUTHWOOD

6 The ‘academic career’ in the era of flexploitation

GEORGE MORGAN AND JULIAN WOOD

7 Coping with uncertainty: precarious workers of the Greek media sector

MANOS SPYRIDAKIS

8 Stories of precarious lives

JOANNE RICHARDSON

9 Precarious Japan 122

STEFFI RICHTER

PART II Resistance: social movements against precariousness

10 The two endings of the precarious movement

DIMITRIS PAPADOPOULOS

11 The precariat for itself: Euro May Day and precarious workers’ movements

ALEX FOTI

12 Fake it until you make it: prefigurative practices and the extrospection of precarity

VALERIA GRAZIANO

13 ‘Precariedad everywhere?!’ Rethinking precarity and emigration in Spain

MARIBEL CASAS-CORTÉS AND SEBASTIAN COBARRUBIAS

PART III Conceptual outlooks

14 Working for nothing: the latest high-growth sector?

ANDREW ROSS

15 Labour, (in-)dependence, care: Conceptualizing the precarious

ISABELL LOREY

16 Encoding the law of the household and the standardisation of uncertainty

ANGELA MITROPOULOS

Index

About the Author

Emiliana Armano has a PhD in Labour Studies at the Department of Social and Political Sciences in the State University of Milan, Italy.

Arianna Bove is a Lecturer in Politics and Ethics at the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, University of London, UK.

Annalisa Murgia is Associate Professor in Human Resources Management, Leeds University Business School, UK.

Reviews

"It is against such expansive theoretical terrain that Armano, Bove and Murgia’s edited volume sets out to trace the contours and expand on current conceptualisations. Suitably subtitled Subjectivities and Resistance: An Introduction, the volume considers the structural context of precarious work, yet goes beyond and engages with the grainy, casual and colloquial body of precarious narratives that emerge from the grass-roots and are in danger of being overlooked. The book is divided into three parts, investigating the precarious experience on three different levels and from three different standpoints."
Constantine Manolchev, University of Exeter Business School, UK, Work, employment and society Journal"Angela Mitropoulos’s final, summary chapter is particularly noteworthy as it connects the precarity of labour market structures with the precariousness of existence in a mosaic of markets, state policy, labour valorisation and regulative order. It restates the continued scope for individual resistance in the face of precarious odds, reminding that the volume is equally concerned with past trends, and the direction of future travel."The British Sociological Association Journal"This book represents an important work if we are to understand the transformations happening in the world of work, of professional life and, also, its repercussions in everyday life and the sphere of reproduction and care" Pere Jódar, Mireia Bolíbar , CAMBIO 16, Firenze University Press, Vol. 8 • n.16 • 2018