I understand precarity to be a matter of the working class, defined as all those who sell their labor power as a commodity, with the important note that ’sell’ does not limit the working class to those who earn wages but includes nonmonetary or nonwage transaction in exchanges for means of meeting needs as well.

This blog is intended to be a resource for me in understanding better what precarity is or is thought to be, as an objective condition or in the third person, and what the precariat is or is thought to be as an active and oppositional subject, in the first person. Another interest is the hinge between these two, the first person experience of the condition of precarity. (more…)