Chapter 9. Relative Precarity

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Preface ix
5. Introduction. Precarity, Class, and the Neoliberal Subject 1
6. Chapter 1. Varieties of Capital, Fracture of Labor 39
7. Chapter 2. Miners and Their Children 61
8. Chapter 3. Work, Precarity, and Resistance 85
9. Chapter 4. Regular Work in Decline, Precarious Households, and Changing Solidarities in Bulgaria 111
10. Chapter 5. Precarious Labor and Precarious Livelihoods in an Indian Company Town 134
11. Chapter 6. Regimes of Precarity 155
12. Chapter 7. Between God and the State 180
13. Chapter 8. The (Un-)Making of Labor 197
14. Chapter 9. Relative Precarity 218
15. Chapter 10. From Avtoritet and Autonomy to Self-Exploitation in the Russian Automotive Industry 241
16. Chapter 11. Precarity, Guanxi, and the Informal Economy of Peasant Workers in Contemporary China 265
17. Chapter 12. From Dispossessed Factory Workers to “Microentrepreneurs” 289
18. Chapter 13. Towards a Political Economy of Skill and Garment Work 309
19. Chapter 14. From Casual to Permanent Work 336
20. Afterword. Third Wave Marketization 355
21. Index 363