Archive: Precarity
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WCP: Working-Class Precarity: An Education
Students’ experiences can be valuable resources in the classroom, especially when we’re teaching about work and class. In this week’s Working-Class Perspectives, Tim Strangleman reflects on what happened when he asked his students to bring in videos about precarious work.
Category: Visiting Scholars
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WCP: Worker Portraits: Contradictions and Contingencies
Art depicting workers offers contradicting meanings of work in both capturing the dignity and pride of workers but also representing the struggles and hardships of labor. In Working-Class Perspectives, Sherry Linkon reflects on how these tensions manifest in a new exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery and argues that the exhibit neglects the precarious nature of work today.
Category: Visiting Scholars
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WCP: The Precariat: Why a Basic Income is Vital
As work becomes increasingly unstable and insecure, economic inequality balloons. In this week’s Working-Class Perspective, Guy Standing makes the case for a universal basic income with supplements for disadvantaged groups as the only sustainable solution.
Category: Visiting Scholars
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WCP: The Work Lives of Uber Drivers Are Worse Than You Think
Uber promises freedom and flexibility to drivers but instead delivers risk, exploitation, and low wages that compel drivers to work long and inconvenient hours. That is what Katie Wells, Kafui Attoh, and Declan Cullen discovered by conducting a groundbreaking series of interviews with 40 Uber drivers in the DC area, highlighted in this week’s Working-Class Perspective.
Category: Visiting Scholars
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KI Visiting Scholar John Russo to Speak on the Gig Economy
The Labor and Income Inequality Team at Our Lady of Queen Peace Church is hosting a presentation where KI Visiting Scholar John Russo will share his insights on the gig economy. Join this timely discussion about what the new economy is and how contingent contract workers can build power and secure pay and benefits to support themselves and their families.
Categories: Events, Visiting Scholars
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WCP: Poverty and Precarious Work
Over the Labor Day weekend we celebrated workers and unions, but work itself is becoming increasingly precarious. In this week's Working-Class Perspective, John Russo argues that we should examine t
Category: Visiting Scholars