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Freelance Work Has Always Been Precarious, Not Aspirational. Coronavirus Has Made That Clear

by Sophie McKay

With the government’s most recent measure to support self-employed workers leaving many with no support at all, the dangerous and uncertain nature of freelance work has been exposed, writes Sophie McKay.

Shit Jobs for All: the Many Horrors of the Zero Hours Contract

by Laith Saad

Huge commutes, poor pay and unpaid overtime. Agency worker and journalist Laith Saad speaks with his colleagues about the precarity and exploitation that goes hand-in-hand with a zero hours contract.

Let’s Try Communism: 10 Responses to ‘Queerness and Precarity’

by Jules Joanne Gleeson

Jules Joanne Gleeson responds to Joni Pitt (Cohen) and Sophie Monk's recent Long Read with some thoughts on the family, queer communism and identity within capitalism.

Long Read: ‘We build a wall around our sanctuaries’: Queerness and Precarity

by Joni Pitt (Cohen) & Sophie Monk

Feminists have identified that paid work depends on unpaid female labour performed within the household. But what happens queer folk; those denied access to the traditional household unit, forced to find other ways to support themselves? Joni Pitt (Cohen) and Sophie Monk explore the idea that, in some ways, queerness is precarity.

6 Things Warwick University’s New Temp Agency Tells Us About Academic Precarity

by John Murray

Warwick University has announced plans to employ all casual staff through an internal temp agency. Anti-casualisation campaigners have targeted the move as an insidious form of outsourcing which threatens the whole sector.

I’m about to be a new Dad and my child will live in poverty.

by Trevor Bastard

Rents are rising and wages falling. Even for those with median incomes, private rent costs are pushing people further into poverty.

5 Reasons Young People Will Redefine Europe, For Better or Worse

by Niki Seth-Smith

Young people across Europe appear simultaneously disenfranchised from incumbent political institutions and newly empowered by contentious political projects which are challenging the constitutional status quo, from both the left and right. Precarious Europe is a media project which seeks to chart these engagements with questions of identity, sovereignty and nationality in the context of a changing Europe.