Word: Precariat

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Precariat appears to be a deliberate variant of proletariat.


Website: Techcrunch
Title: It’s A Wonderful Life, For A Few Of Us
Author: Jon Evans
Date: December 22, 2013
http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/21/but-not-so-much-for-the-rest/

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So people who aren’t rich, and aren’t in tech — the vast majority, I
hasten to remind you — will increasingly become part of the precariat:

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This is not just a matter of having insecure employment, of being in
jobs of limited duration and with minimal labour protection, although
all this is widespread. It is being in a status that offers no sense
of career, no sense of secure occupational identity and few, if any,
entitlements to the state and enterprise benefits that several
generations … had come to expect as their due.
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Wikipedia already has an entry which was created around September 16,
2011 according to the history tab information.

Precariat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precariat

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