precariatn.
/prɪˈkɛːrɪət/, U.S. /prəˈkɛriət/ With singular or plural agreement. People whose employment, income, and living standards are insecure or precarious; such people considered collectively as a social class. Cf. precarity n.
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1989 M. Harrington Socialism ix. 258 A ‘precariat’ of casual workers, participants in the ‘underground’ economy.
2007 Feminist Rev. 87 9 Such a view was based on a politically imaginary subject: the single, male, urban artist or creative worker, idealized as the vanguard of the precariat.
2011 G. Standing Precariat 1 The result has been the creation of a global ‘precariat’, consisting of many millions around the world without an anchor of stability.
2017 Economist (Electronic ed.) 22 Apr. 30 This created a two-tier labour market, with the lower tier populated by a young precariat.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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