Graham, Janna and Papadopoulos, Dimitris. 2021. Organizing the precarious: Autonomous work, real democracy and ecological precarity. Organization, ISSN 1350-5084 [Article] (In Press) https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/30319/ The version presented here may differ from the published, performed or presented work. Please go to the persistent GRO record above for more information. If you believe that any material held in the repository infringes copyright law, please contact the Repository Team at Goldsmiths, University of London via the following email address:
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[email protected] Organizing the precarious: Autonomous work, real democracy and ecological precarity Janna Graham, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Dimitris Papadopoulos University of Nottingham, UK Corresponding author: Dimitris Papadopoulos, Institute for Science and Society, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK. Email:
[email protected] Abstract In 2008, just as the movement of the precarious seemed to be winning political battle after political battle, the fight against precarization suddenly dwindled. The cycle of struggles of the precarious that began in 2000 had come to an end. Ironically this was also the moment that precarity as a concept became widely known in popular opinion, media commentary and academia. This paper focuses on the movement of the precarious from its inception in the early 2000s to its decline in 2008 and its reappearance in response to the economic crisis through the widespread mobilizations for “real democracy” between 2008 and 2014.