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noun
People suffering from precarity, especially as a social class; people living a precarious existence, without security or predictability, especially job security.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: collective, countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, sciences, social-science, sociology
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Blend of precarious + proletariat, emerging from the socio-economic theories of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and popularized by economist Guy Standing in his book The Precariat (2011).
Across languages
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
