Between meritocratic victimhood and resignation. Two antagonistic perceptions of youth precariousness in Spain

  • Héctor Gil Rodríguez Departamento de Filosofia i Treball Social de la Universitat de les Illes Balears
  • César Rendueles Departamento de Sociología: Teoría y Metodología de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Keywords: precariousness, youth, employment, financial crisis, political participation

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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2019-06-10
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Gil Rodríguez H. y Rendueles C. (2019). Between meritocratic victimhood and resignation. Two antagonistic perceptions of youth precariousness in Spain. Cuadernos de Relaciones Laborales, 37(1), 31-48. https://doi.org/10.5209/CRLA.63818