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Labor and Precarity

Date Published: November 9, 2023

The rise of precarious and contingent labor has been one of the major economic changes over the past few decades, especially in the aftermath of the Great Recession of 2007–2009. That precarity impacts many roles within the economy—gig workers, warehouse workers, day laborers, sanitation workers, and beyond—that all share a similar set of uncertainties, such as limited or no permanent employee rights, work-based payment, and insecure/unprotected households. These books, journal issues, and articles address the many faces of precarity around the world.

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JOURNAL ARTICLE

“You'll Never Walk Alone”: School Crossing Guard Associations and Labor Feminism in the Postwar United States

Francis Ryan
Labor 20:1, 2023

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Aging through Precarious Time: Maintenance and Milling in The Cost of Living and Weather

Katherin Kruger
Poetics Today 44:1-2, 2023

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Flailing at Feminized Labor: SOFFAs, 1990s Trans Care Networks, Stone Butch Blues, and the Devaluation of Social Reproduction

Aren Aizura
South Atlantic Quarterly 122:3, 2023

JOURNAL ISSUE

Labor and Precarity

“You'll Never Walk Alone”: School Crossing Guard Associations and Labor Feminism in the Postwar United States

Aging through Precarious Time: Maintenance and Milling in The Cost of Living and Weather

Flailing at Feminized Labor: SOFFAs, 1990s Trans Care Networks, Stone Butch Blues, and the Devaluation of Social Reproduction

cultures of labor in contemporary china

Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey

Hoboes, Wheat, and Climate Precarity, 1870–1922

Working Worlds in Neoliberal Japan: Precarity, Imagination, and the “Other-World” Trope

Digital Precarity Manifesto

The Rise of Precarious Workers

From the Subaltern to the Precariat

Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal

Day Laborers, Domestic Workers, and Precarity’s Politics

Reclaiming the Discarded: Life and Labor on Rio's Garbage Dump

Precarious Seoul: Urban Inequality and Belonging of Young Adults in South Korea

Invisibility by Design: Women and Labor in Japan's Digital Economy

Mothering through Precarity: Women's Work and Digital Media

Women of DEFA: Gender, Labor, and Precarity in (Post)Socialist Cinema

A People's History of Detroit

Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University

Labor and Precarity

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