The New Social Division

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. The Precarization Effect

   1. The Precarization Effect

      • Donatella della Porta, Sakari Hänninen, Martti Siisiäinen, Tiina Silvasti

      Pages 1-23

3. ‘Objective’ Class Characteristics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25

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   2. Precarity in Different Worlds of Social Classes

      • Harri Melin, Raimo Blom

      Pages 27-42

   3. Precarity — Minority Condition or Majority Experience?

      • Kevin Doogan

      Pages 43-62

   4. A European Analysis of Subsistence Precarization and Precarious Risk

      • Erling Solheim, Håkon Leiulfsrud

      Pages 63-82

   5. Tests for the Underclass: The Social Effects of Activating Labour Market Policy in Germany

      • Klaus Dörre

      Pages 83-100

   6. The Precarious Status of Migrant Labour in Greece: Evidence from Rural Areas

      • Charalambos Kasimis, Apostolos G. Papadopoulos, Stavros Zografakis

      Pages 101-119

4. Precarious Experiences

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121

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   2. Precariousness in Academia: Prospects for University Employment

      • Kirsti Lempiäinen

      Pages 123-138

   3. On the Roma Precarious Experience Facing Free Christianism

      • Ildikó Asztalos Morell

      Pages 139-157

   4. Giving up Farming as a Precarious Decision

      • Tiina Silvasti, Sakari Hänninen

      Pages 159-175

   5. Let’s Kill the Messenger! The Reception and Recognition of the Precarity Movement and Argument in Finland

      • Mikko Jakonen

      Pages 177-196

   6. Precarious Voice or Precarious Noise?

      • Lauri Siisiäinen

      Pages 197-212

5. Precarious Collective Actions (Struggles)

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 213-213

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   2. Precarious Struggles in Italy

      • Donatella della Porta, Simone Baglioni, Herbert Reiter

      Pages 215-232

   3. The Many Frames of the Precarious Condition. Some Insights from Italian Mobilizations against Precarity

      • Alice Mattoni

      Pages 233-248

   4. The Transformation of Jobless Movement and the Segregation of the Unemployed in Finland since the 1990s

      • Martti Siisiäinen, Eeva Luhtakallio, Tomi Kankainen

      Pages 249-267

   5. Varieties of Precarious Workers’ Unionism: The Case of Greece and Italy

      • Markos Vogiatzoglou

      Pages 269-286

   6. The Making and Unmaking of Precarity: Some Concluding Remarks

      • Donatella della Porta, Sakari Hänninen, Martti Siisiäinen, Tiina Silvasti

      Pages 287-298

This volume addresses issues of precariousness in a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, looking at socio-economic transformations as well as the identity formation and political organizing of precarious people. The collection bridges empirical research with social theory to problematize and analyse the precariat.

• Precarization
• unemployment
• social exclusion
• social movements
• equality
• labour market
• capitalism
• flexibility
• identity
• labor market
• Segregation
• social theory
• transformation

“The collection offers some valuable contributions to the existing body of knowledge. … the book is strong on its diverse analytical dimensions, which reveal the manifold character of the precarisation process. It brings important contributions to the debate by offering a contextual understanding of the triggers behind, experiences of and struggles against precariousness.” (Mirela Ivanova, Transfer, Vol. 23 (4), 2017)

• European University Institute, Italy

  Donatella Porta

• National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland

  Sakari Hänninen

• University of Jyväskylä, Finland

  Martti Siisiäinen, Tiina Silvasti

Ildikó Asztalos Morell, Mälardalen University, Sweden. Simone Baglioni, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK. Raimo Blom, University of Tampere, Finland. Kevin Doogan, University of Bristol, UK. Klaus Dörre, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Germany. Tomi Kankainen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Charalambos Kasimis, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece. Håkon Leiulfsrud, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. Kirsti Lempiäinen, University of Lapland, Finland. Eeva Luhtakallio, University of Tampere, Finland. Alice Mattoni, European University Institute, Italy. Harri Melin, University of Tampere, Finland. Apostolos G. Papadopoulos, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece. Herbert Reiter, European University Institute, Italy. Lauri Siisiainen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Erling Solheim, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. Markos Vogiatzoglou , European University Institute, Italy. Stavros Zografakis, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece.

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