From Truthout:
“The precariat is not the equivalent of what we used to call the working class,” National Book Critics Circle award recipient Eula Biss writes in the introduction to American Precariat: Parables of Exclusion. “More common now is gig work, with no set hours, no potential for advancement, work done through the interface of an app by workers who don’t know the people for whom they’re working.”
But the phenomenon of economic and social precarity is also more than this, and American Precariat, a book edited by 12 men incarcerated in Minnesota’s Faribault, Moose Lake and Stillwater prisons, explores the ways that U.S. residents have been pushed to the edge by crushing student loan debt, homelessness, racism, mental illness, physical disability, anti-trans bigotry, workplace instability and undocumented immigration status.
It’s a powerful, incisive and provocative collection, compiled over four years that began before COVID-19 and extended well into the worst of the pandemic. Continue reading >>>
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