The Pragmatics of Precarious Work

Drawing on data collected in London's precarious labour market during the Covid-19 pandemic, this book explores how precarious work is pragmatically engaged with towards the production of simultaneous security and insecurity.

Krzysztof Z. Jankowski is a social theorist and ethnographer from Dunedin, New Zealand. His research interrogates the structuring of societal change through a range of focuses, including global mobilities, global consumer culture, urban morphology and, in this text, the instabilities of employment.