Precarized Society

1. Front Matter

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2. Precarized Society—Social Transformations of the Welfare State

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Introduction. Short Remarks

      • Rolf-Dieter Hepp

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   3. Social Precariousness and the European Pillar of Social Rights

      • Marco Ricceri

      Pages 9-40

   4. Social Policy Development in the International Context—Social Investment or a New Social Treatise?

      • Peter Herrmann

      Pages 41-57

   5. Precarity of Employment: A Look at Russia

      • Vyacheslav Bobkov

      Pages 59-67

   6. The Impact of the Crisis on the Labour Market Situation of Households in Italy

      • Francesca Della Ratta-Rinaldi, Eugenia De Rosa, Elisa Marzilli, Maria Elena Pontecorvo

      Pages 69-85

   7. Integration of the European Roma Minority into the European Union

      • Helgard Kramer, Nicole Horákova

      Pages 87-94

   8. The Precariousness of the Young Generation and the Making of Flexible and Employable Workforce

      • Franz Schultheis

      Pages 95-107

3. Inscribed Precarity—Subjectionprocesses and Precarity

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Togetherness—On Neighboring in Precarious Times

      • Tadeusz Rachwał

      Pages 111-121

   3. Understanding Merleau-Ponty’s Concept of Dehiscence in the Context of Precarity

      • Frank J. Macke

      Pages 123-133

   4. Communicology, Antidepressants and Employability—A Critique of the Pathologization of Precarity

      • Isaac E. Catt

      Pages 135-155

   5. Precarious Sociality and Pathological Actors—Aspects of the Production of Social Disintegration

      • Alexander Sieg

      Pages 157-168

   6. Precarisation, Exclusion and Social Work

      • Jörg Zeller

      Pages 169-177

   7. Bourdieu for Austrians—Des Menschen Herz. Sozialstaatsroman (The Human Heart. A Welfare State Novel)

      • Egon Christian Leitner

      Pages 179-196

   8. Habitation/Housing in the Welfare State. Some Aspects of Living under Precarious Conditions or: Is There a Life after Breakfast?

      • Sabine Kergel

      Pages 197-205

   9. The Freedom of the Precarious. On the Production of Dependency and Lack of Individuality

      • Rolf-Dieter Hepp

      Pages 207-214

   10. Paranoia and Control—A Narrative About the Social Factory

       • Lennart Nørreklit

       Pages 215-236

   11. The Suspended: Blind Spots in Society—Social Mobility and Political Psychology of Devaluation in East Germany Since 1989

       • Yana Milev

       Pages 237-248

This book provides international and transdisciplinary perspectives on Hyperprecarity and Social Structural Transformations in European Societies, USA and Russia enforced through other special transformation processes such as digitalisation, migration and demographic change. It has been observed that precarity and social insecurity do not refer any longer only to certain groups of the society such as unemployed people or to those ones who are ‘traditionally’ more in need of social benefit etc. but it accompanies and affects greater parts of the society, particularly those sections of the middleclass who conceive their social identity merely via their work ethics. Consequentially new forms of social exclusion are being producing taxing the traditional social cohesion in European societies due to the demand of new forms of flexibility and mobility from the working people. This process can be termed with the notion 'Hyperprecarisation'.

This book contains contributions from scientists all over Europe, Russia and the USA, who are members of the SUPI network “Social Uncertainty, Prequarity, Inequality”.

PD Dr. Rolf Hepp teaches at the Institut for Soziologie at the FU Berlin and coordinates the S.U.P.I.-Network.

Dr. David Kergel teaches at Universität Siegen, Medienwissenschaftliches Seminar.

Dr. Robert Riesinger, (Prof. a.D., FH Joanneum Graz) is author and researcher for sociology in Steyerberg.

• Precarisation
• Social Enequality
• Social Injustice
• Labour Market
• Social Mobility
• Social Disintegration
• Welfare State
• Digitalization

• Institut für Soziologie, FU Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  Rolf-Dieter Hepp

• Medienwissenschaftliches Seminar, Universität Siegen, Siegen, Germany

  David Kergel

• FH Joanneum Graz, Graz, Austria

  Robert Riesinger

PD Dr. Rolf Hepp teaches at the Institut for Soziologie at the FU Berlin and coordinates the SUPI-Network.

Dr. David Kergel teaches at Universität Siegen, Medienwissenschaftliches Seminar.

Dr. Robert Riesinger, (Prof. a.D., FH Joanneum Graz) is author and researcher for sociology in Steyerberg.

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