Precariat as a result of personalizing modern social, labor and personal practices

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https://doi.org/10.21847/2411-3093.2022.3(2).287360

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precariousness, precariat, social and labor relations, neoliberal model, market flexibility, social anomie

Abstract

The author analyzes the manifestations of social precariousness practices in mo­dern social and labor relations. The analysis is carried out in three methodological directions: political (the formation of the precariat is determined by political factors); economic and technological (precarious practices are considered from the point of view of economic flexibility); functionalist (fixation of an individual’s psychological characteristics specific to precarious practices is carried out). It is proved that it is the functional approach that gives grounds for further considerations regarding the life strategies chosen by the precariats, as well as their attitude to the state as the main source of their problems. It was revealed that the combination of a high protest potential with a low ability to organize makes the precariat an environment where, against the background of a low material status, fear and uncertainty about one's future can generate extreme forms of reaction to them – from the conforming acceptance in an individual order of the labor relations’ formats, which are provoked by employers, to spontaneous mass protests, which, however, are not able to eliminate the causes of precariousness, but often turn into trashes, intensified by inter-racial and inter-confessional contradictions

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2022-09-01

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Oliinyk, I. (2022). Precariat as a result of personalizing modern social, labor and personal practices. Skhid, 3(2), 71–75. https://doi.org/10.21847/2411-3093.2022.3(2).287360