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Precarized Society

Social Transformation of the Welfare State

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Editors:
  1. Rolf-Dieter Hepp

    1. Institut für Soziologie, FU Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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  2. David Kergel

    1. Medienwissenschaftliches Seminar, Universität Siegen, Siegen, Germany

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  3. Robert Riesinger

    1. FH Joanneum Graz, Graz, Austria

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  • Precarised Society – Social Transformations of the Welfare State
  • Inscribed Precarity: Subjectionprocesses and Precarity
  • Urban Precarity in the Digital Age

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Precarized Society—Social Transformations of the Welfare State

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction. Short Remarks

      • Rolf-Dieter Hepp
      Pages 3-8

    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

      Pages 109-109
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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
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • 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

About the editors

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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