Abstract
For the first time in history, the mainstream left has no progressive agenda. It has forgotten a basic principle. Every progressive political movement has been built on the anger, needs and aspirations of the emerging major class. Today that class is the precariat.
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- 2025
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- 247-282
- Citations
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Guy Standing
(2025).
8 The Precariat The New Dangerous Class?.
Amsterdam University Press eBooks
, 247-282.
https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048560660-009
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- DOI
- 10.1515/9789048560660-009