A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.

Guy Standing's immensely influential 2011 book introduced the Precariat as an emerging mass class, characterized by inequality and insecurity. Standing outlined the increasingly global nature of the Precariat as a social phenomenon, especially in the light of the social unrest characterized by the Occupy movements. He outlined the political risks they might po...