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

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  • Iderley Colombini

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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.

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  • Iderley Colombini, 2020. "Form and Essence of Precarization by Work: From Alienation to the Industrial Reserve Army at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 52(3), pages 409-426, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:52:y:2020:i:3:p:409-426
    DOI: 10.1177/0486613419882124
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    Keywords

    precarious work; industrial reserve army; class struggle; globalization;
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    • B51 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Socialist; Marxian; Sraffian
    • F66 - International Economics - - Economic Impacts of Globalization - - - Labor
    • J80 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Standards - - - General

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