The precariousness of knowledge workers: hybridisation, self-employment and subjectification. (1st December 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Is Part Of: Work, organisation, labour & globalisation. Volume 10:Number 2(2016)
• Page Start: 1
• Page End: 8
• Publication Date: 2016-12-01
• Subjects: Work -- Periodicals; Labor -- Periodicals; Division of labor -- Periodicals; Industrial relations -- Periodicals; Division of labor; Industrial relations; Labor; Work; Periodicals; 331
• DOI: 10.13169/workorgalaboglob.10.2.0001
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1745-6428

Abstract

Abstract : In knowledge-based industries, work is circumscribed by the cognitive frames of creativity in the representations of subjects, but simultaneously demands adaptability, in a context in which deregulation and individualisation are now normal. The ethics of self-activation are therefore inextricably intertwined with the demands of intensification, standardisation and self-commodification. The first volume of this Special Issue – which is made up of two different parts – focuses on the phenomena of hybridisation, self-employment and subjectification, at the core of the experiences of precarious workers in knowledge societies. This article introduces the first part of the two-part Special Issue on the precariousness of knowledge workers.