'Flexible Subjects: A Contemporary Critical Theory of'Flexibility'/Precarity

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This study will aim to better define the forms precarious labourtakes in the contemporary UK by critically exploring existingdefinitions of the term and seeking to contribute to definingaclearer and more directly applicable definition to contemporaryUK society using specific contemporary examples.The study willaim to contribute to debates on underemployment and itssometime overlap with the reality of claiming benefits and'workfare', 'self-employment' - or the further individualization andfragmentation of an already individualized and fragmentedexperience (Fleming2017, Moore 2017, Whitton 2003) - and indeeda survey of the agency of the social subject, in examples ofcontesting precarious labour: the considerable successes of baseunions being arguably, the paradigm example.