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Young precariat and a new work order? A case for historical sociology
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This article assesses Guy Standing's (2011) account of ‘the precariat’ as a ‘new class' to the many exercises undertaken in youth studies since the 1980s to make sense of the changing patterns of youth employment. While Standing's focus on the experience of fragmented and casualized work in many economies which now implicates young people has value, there are significant problems with his account that highlights the some difficulties in thinking in somewhat abstracted ways about ‘structural’ change processes that do not sufficiently consider the question of time. The case of Australia's of labour market regulation since the 1890s is used to test the validity of Standing's focus on the novelty of neoliberalism after the early 1980 to explain the emergence of precarious employment. Standing's claim that insecurity is central to the ‘new precariat’ because they lack the different kinds of security enjoyed by the ‘working-class’ after 1945, highlights the need for an interpretative framework attentive to the longer term role of state policy and the interplay of historical and local processes. The case is then made for developing a historical sociology that engages with what is now happening in respect to young people and their employment security.
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- Authors
- Bessant, J.
- Affiliations
- RMIT University (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Bessant, Judith
- ORCID
- Bessant, Judith
- Venue
- Journal of Youth Studies
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2018-01-08
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 780-798
- ISSN
- 1367-6261 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-9680
- OpenAlex
- W2783070996
- Cited by
- 53
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 1
- FWCI
- 10.94
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Youth Studies (publishedVersion)
- RMIT Research Repository (RMIT University Library) (submittedVersion)
- Figshare (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Industrial relations › Employment, Labor, and Gender Studies
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Education and Labor Relations
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
- Keywords
- precariat, youth employment, precarious employment, labor market regulation, neoliberalism, job security, historical sociology, youth studies, Australia, structural change, state policy
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