부산대학교 도서관

Changes in work relations have given prominence to the discussion on the existence of a ‘precariat’, as a new social grouping. Firstly, this paper summarises three discussions concerning this group. Is it a “new” class? Is it possible to give a clear definition of this group? What are the political stakes of this debate? The second part of the paper questions the ability (or not) of this “dangerous” class to mobilise. The difficulties of collective action are striking: low CATNET, low levels of organisation for the working-class precariat, and centrifugal trends among the ‘intellectual’ professions of the precariat. Precariat mobilisations do however exist and the final section of the article concludes on their potential as social movements.