Chapter FiveThe Unique Submission Required for Precarious Work
The widespread existence of precarious work in our society is increasingly recognized. Its psychological strains and potential for personal deformations are manifold.
Even many anti-work thinkers look back with some nostalgia to the Fordist era, in which, it is said, so-called blue-collar workers labored on steady, predictable schedules, being paid good wages regularly; hiring and promotion practices possessed easily understood job- and experience-related standards. Unions in the private sector certainly were more prevalent, and, as many have noted, income was broadly more equal within North American and European countries.1 But the post-Fordist world ...
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