¿ìèÊÓƵ

Precarity and the Politics of Work (Spr) (L2901B)

15 credits, Level 5

Spring teaching

This module offers you training in sociological approaches to and analyses of the phenomenon of work under capitalism. It addresses precarity as a social, political, and economic process. The module aims to give you an advanced critical understanding of precarity and the casualisation of working arrangements not as a neoliberal novelty and exception but, rather, as a structural trait of capitalism.

In this module, there’s a:

• first part focusing on the theory and history of the ‘making’ of exploitable working subjects
• second part addressing contemporary sociological studies that investigate temporal reconfigurations in emerging working arrangements (gig economy, remote working, AI/automation and its training, etc).