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This contribution conceptualises precarity as a relational category that must refer to definitions of social normality standards in order to be meaningful. Within the post-welfare states of the Global North, a new form of discriminatory precarity has taken hold. As a regime of disciplination and domination, this new form permeates all segments of societies based on wage labour. Building on Castels' zone model and empirical research, we develop an extended typology of wage labour's (dis-)integration potentials. This typology combines structural criteria with subjective ways of processing insecurity. Finally, we recapitulate the current precarity discourse in Central Europe and discuss potential research that could bring approaches in the Global North and South closer together. Adapted from the source document.

The article highlights the development & stabilization of extreme right-wing positions in the work sphere. The core assumption is that the tendency of recommodification of labor, which is characteristic for highly developed economies these days, undermines the social integrative dimension of gainful employment. This is one reason for the new phenomenon of right-wing populism, which can be increasingly found among blue-collar as well as white-collar workers. Well-meant strategies in companies & administrative authorities to inhibit racism are mostly ineffective or even counterproductive because they fail to identify the proper reasons for racist prejudices at work. Effective strategies should aim at stopping the tendency of recommodification through new modes of social reembedding. 29 References. Adapted from the source document.

The future of unions depends on their ability to renew themselves organizationally. Exemplifying 'organizing' Dorre and Nachtwey show advantages & disadvantages as well as difficulties of transferring approaches from countries with different general frameworks to the current situation in Germany. Adapted from the source document.

The crisis does not seem to have reached the consciousness of subjects. However, the alleged immunity of subjectivities against it does not result from affirmative internalization of 'entrepreneurial' interpellations, but from the mobilization of 'wayward,' non-market compliant practices & dispositions. Rather than as a linear, subsuming process of "subjectivation," this is to be interpreted as the subjective dimension of capitalist accumulation by dispossession. As our empirical data illustrates, the crisis is indeed present as a permanent state in the daily lives of many people. While there is a widespread critical consciousness of the crisis & of capitalism in general, it fails to result in collective action due to the lack of a political frame of reference that action could relate to. Adapted from the source document.