Author:
Zhan T. Toshchenko, Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow, Russia)
Abstract:
The article substantiates the emergence of a new social class – the precariat, explains the reasons for its emergence, its structure and its main characteristics. It is shown how ideas about the precariat matured in the depths of world and domestic social thought and the real practice of the functioning of the modern economy. The main features of this class are revealed, its specificity, its place and role in the modern division of labor, its position in the labor market, the first sprouts of its awareness as a “class for itself” are revealed. The consequences of the existence and functioning of this new social phenomenon are clarified.
Keywords: society, class, labor, employment, precariat.
For citation: Toshchenko Zh. T. (2022). A new socio-economic phenomenon: precariat. Noonomy and Noosociety. Almanac of Scientific Works of the S.Y. Witte INID, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 109–120. DOI: 10.37930/2782-618X-2022-1-1-109-120.