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The new “Precariate” – low end wage earners

By on January 7, 2012 in Vincentian Family News · Comments { 1 }

British Economist, Guy Standing, coined the term, precariat, to describe the reality of low wage workers in our modern, global economy; a reality in which risk continues to be shifted away from capital and on to the backs of working people at the low end of the labour market. As Frederic Ozanam put it: “The [...]

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