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Book Edited by Incarcerated Writers Explores Oppression Beyond Prison Walls

“American Precariat” explores ways which people pushed to edge by myriad social ills

https://truthout.org/articles/new-book-edited-by-incarcerated-writers-explores-oppression-beyond-prison-walls

https://coffeehousepress.org/products/american-precariat-parables-of-exclusion

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

* neologism; social class formed by people suffering f. precarity (existing w/o predictability or security, affecting material or psychological welfare)

#precarity #incarceration #poverty #PrisonIndustrialComplex #HumanRights #capitalism

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American Precariat: U.S. Capitalism in Comparative Perspective

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/american-precariat-us-capitalism-in-comparative-perspective/13BFEA02B83DBBD792D05107A9149D2D

* addresses rise of “gig” work in context of much longer trend toward precarious forms of employment

* explores forces driving these developments, discusses problems they pose at both individual & national levels

* identifies structural factors exacerbating precarity & intensify its effects in U.S. political economy

#precarity #poverty #HumanRights #capitalism #GigWork #PoliticalEconomy