PrefaceAbbreviationsThe PrecariatWhy the Precariat Is GrowingWho Enters the Precariat?Migrants: Victims, Villains or Heroes?Labour, Work and the Time SqueezeA Politics of InfernoA Politics of ParadiseBibliography

Preface Abbreviations The Precariat Why the Precariat Is Growing Who Enters the Precariat? Migrants: Victims, Villains or Heroes? Labour, Work and the Time Squeeze A Politics of Inferno A Politics of Paradise Bibliography

Abbreviations

Abbreviations AARP

American Association of Retired Persons

AFL-CIO

American Federation of Labor/Congress of Industrial Organizations

BBVA

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria

BIEN

Basic Income Earth Network

CBT

Cognitive behavioural therapy

CCT

Conditional cash transfer

CIA

Central Intelligence Agency

CRI

Crime Reduction Initiatives

EHRC

Equality and Human Rights Commission (UK)

EU

European Union

GCSE

General Certificate of Secondary Education

IMF

International Monetary Fund

LIFO

Last-in, first-out

NGO

Non-governmental organisation

NIC

Newly industrialising country

OECD

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

RMI

Revenu minimum d'insertion

SEWA

Self-Employed Women's Association of India

UKBA

UK Border Agency

UMP

Union pour un Mouvement Populaire