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TheVanishing “ShadowOfTheFuture” - Guy Standing, The Precariat. The New Dangerous Class (London, Bloomsbury Academic2011).
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 February 2012
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- European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie , Volume 52 , Issue 3 , December 2011 , pp. 466 - 474
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- Copyright © A.E.S. 2011
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1 In Germany, recent generations of university graduates refer to themselves as “Generation Praktikum” (“generation internship”). Another telling self-description is that of the “neither-nor-generation” of people who are neither “normally” employed nor permanently unemployed, neither grown-up (as they continue to depend on parental support) nor children (as they are – nominally – adults), neither “here” nor “there”, as they have to be mobile and flexible, and neither “at home” nor “at work”, as both is often both; as Standing observes: “Work places and play places blur in a haze of alcohol and stewed coffee”.
2 The intuition here being that skills are a perishable good: If you are not allowed to practice your skills and to do what you can do, chances are that you cannot do it any longer after a while.
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