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From precarity to precarious.

Publication: Arena Magazine
Publication Date: 01-APR-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
In Europe the anti-capitalist/anti-globalist movement is talking of 'precarity'. There is now even a San Precario in Italy. Precarity is the state of being experienced by casual and fixed-term contract workers, whose employment is precarious. Anxiety, forced competitiveness, a vision of life limited to the short term; all these are characteristic of precarity. San Precario's banner appears at anti-globalisation protests, turning them into mock processions of the new (or soon to be) poor led into an uncertain future by their patron Saint.

The spirit of Precario reappeared in France in early March, when Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin introduced his new remedy for youth unemployment: the 'First Job Contract' (CPE). De Villepin's law allows workers under the age of twenty-six to be fired without reason, within the first two years of their...

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