Insecure people Quote by Johann Hari

“Another blatant case of regress as part of the capitalist progress is the enormous rise of precarious work. Precarious work deprives workers of a…

— Slavoj Žižek

“As Chomsky explains, this is part of a wider movement to separate the population into two groups: the “plutonomy” and the “precariat.” The uber-wealthy…

— Loren Mayshark

The precariat consists of a growing proportion of our total society. It is being habituated to accept a life of unstable labour and unstable…

— Guy Standing

“Sadly, in our technological, impersonal, and avaricious consumer society, people merely hold on to jobs. They put in their time, leave at the five…

— Robert Dykstra

Good thinkers are always in demand. A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always…

— John C. Maxwell

“A tawdry realm of shifting, insecure employment and fleeting glimpses of high reward for little effort. A world where strings are pulled by complete…

— Kevin Armstrong

“Because, to do manual work now, means in reality to shut yourself up for ten or twelve hours a day in an unhealthy workshop,…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

“As Virno puts it ‘correctly understood, post-Fordist “professionality” does not correspond to any precise profession. It consists rather of certain character traits.’25 At this…

— Nina Power

People in the precariat find themselves in the situation where the level of their education and qualifications is almost always higher than the sort…

— Guy Standing

“in modern society, there are two types of people: those who get a good job, and those who have to get a bad job…

— Ryan Roy

Under neoliberal governance, workers have seen their wages stagnate and their working conditions and job security become more precarious.

— Mark Fisher