Between meritocratic victimhood and resignation. Two antagonistic perceptions of youth precariousness in Spain
Abstract
During the last decade, the concept of “precariat”, coined by Guy Standing, has popularized to describe a set of vulnerabilities in post-fordist labor markets that would define a relatively homogeneous emerging social class. One of the main weaknesses of this category is its inability to take charge of the deep differences that exist among the precarious workers themselves and that have to do with structural inequalities related to their family origin, their economic, cultural or symbolic capital and their role in the productive process. This article tries to bring these differences to light by analyzing the selfperception of the precarization process by young spanish people of different social origins.
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