Individualization, inequality, and labor: a qualitative approach.
In this paper, we show how we came to explore Beck’s theory of individualization in the light of a qualitative study of livelihood strategies in post-2008 Spain and Cyprus. We observed that experiences of downward social mobility in contexts of welfare retreat and precarious labor conditions were co...
| Publicado en: | Dialectical Anthropology Vol. 42; no. 3; pp. 277 - 292 |
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