Precariat

Quick meaning: Precariat is a noun meaning (sociology, collective) People suffering from precarity, especially as a social class; people living a precarious existence, without security or predictability, especially job security.

Meaning

(sociology, collective) People suffering from precarity, especially as a social class; people living a precarious existence, without security or predictability, especially job security.

Example Sentences

Second, there is the precariat. These are the young and educated voters caught in the gig economy, who see no career security ahead.

The American Precariat seems more hunkered down, insecure, risk averse, relying on friends and family but without faith in American possibilities. This fatalism is historically uncharacteristic of America.

The global precariat is not yet a class in the Marxian sense, being internally divided and only united in fears and insecurities. But it is a class in the making, approaching a consciousness of common vulnerability.

My first encounter with one group of the new nomads came in 2013, at the Desert Rose RV park in Fernley, Nevada. It was populated by members of the “precariat”: temporary laborers doing short-term jobs in exchange for low wages.

Word Forms

• precariats

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include precarization, precarisation, precandidacy, prentice, precocity, precog.

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