The Hedgehog Review
Current Issue
Work in the Precarious Economy
According to scholarly estimates, one-fifth of today’s workforce belongs to the “precariat,” a growing and class-transcending assortment of part-time, short-term, contract workers, seasonal laborers, and other people who toil alone, take on gigs, or start businesses with little hope of longevity, steady incomes, or benefits. Examining the forces that gave rise to the precarious economy, we explore many of the cultural dimensions of the emerging workscape: How have people internalized their new “disruptable” condition? How has “precarity” affected the professions—and, more broadly, the very meaning of vocation? How is our understanding of work time and workplace changing?
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Featured Fellow
Jeff Guhin
Postdoctoral Abd el-Kader Fellow
Jeff Guhin is the Abd El-Kader postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. He earned his PhD in sociology from Yale, and his specialties include education, religion, theory, and culture. His first book, forthcoming from Oxford University Press, is titled The Problem of America: Practices of Moral Authority in Christian and Muslim Schools. His next book, for which he has recently completed fieldwork, is an ethnographic comparison of morality and citizenship in three urban public school districts....
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