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precarious life & times
...confronting precarity in all its social, labor and economic manifestations
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Clocking In A daily look at the #workplace of the #future…MIT @TechReview
Saturday, May 12, 2018
Southern #labor, #voting, #workplace & #education news @MikeElk @PaydayReport
…testing a new feature on newsletters. I subscribe to a number of email newsletters, which have become popular again. There are too many to share or even read all of them. Instead, plan post different newsletters related to precarious life and times, revisiting the most popular ones.
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Saturday, February 10, 2018
What is #precarity and who are the precarious?
Where to start? Inventorying and organizing existing resources. Defining, identifying and describing. I could use a few more hands.
Thursday, February 1, 2018
speaking of names and other changes
Yesterday I renamed both this blog and its companion Facebook page Precarious life and times. Not to worry though -- visitor won't end up in strange places like some did with the domain shift. This change does not affect either url. The Facebook iteration has already been moving away from primarily adjunct issues toward a broader focus on the workplace, economic and social changes accompanying the spread of precarity. Until very recently, this one hasn't been moving at all.
What will change? Content. Adjuncts, casuals and other insecure academic labor will still have a prominent place. There more widgets, posts and collections on related topics, and a "What we can do" category coping and resisting.
What is precarity and who's precarious? The category includes more than academic precariat. Is insecure employment the primary or even sole marker of precarious populations? Is it the only benchmark? The connection with the economy and economic inequality is obvious. Disposable and marginalized groups are particularly vulnerable. Their initial precariousness, whatever the cause -- disability, age, race, gender, social and legal status, etc., inevitably pushes them further down in the workforce and decreases mobility options, often drastically.
Could all precarious people together already be the majority? That would bring us full naming circle to the ❝new precarious majority❞...
Seiltänzer (Tightrope Walker) Paul Klee (cropped) |
What is precarity and who's precarious? The category includes more than academic precariat. Is insecure employment the primary or even sole marker of precarious populations? Is it the only benchmark? The connection with the economy and economic inequality is obvious. Disposable and marginalized groups are particularly vulnerable. Their initial precariousness, whatever the cause -- disability, age, race, gender, social and legal status, etc., inevitably pushes them further down in the workforce and decreases mobility options, often drastically.
Could all precarious people together already be the majority? That would bring us full naming circle to the ❝new precarious majority❞...
Friday, January 26, 2018
Teach-in on #Adjunct Faculty, 4/20/2012 @GreenRiverCC
…moderated by #KeithHoeller and Kathryn Re…featuring Frank Cosco and Jack Longmate.
The teach-in addresses multiple inequities built into the two faculty system and possible solutions.
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