Aspiring to Survive: Precariat Constructions of Social Mobility and Social Justice

学生的目的是调查不稳定工人如何理解和回应英国政府倡导的社会流动性议程，以及这如何根据他们自己对工作和社会流动性的主观理解而变化。通过社会心理访谈和话语分析，该研究将比较他们对社会流动议程中关键概念的理解，如个人责任、获得教育资格和提高生活水平的可能性。最后，研究的目的是使用合作生产的方法，以产生替代方案的社会流动议程，不稳定的工人觉得可以帮助他们的流动性。

The student aims to investigate how precarious workers understand and respond to the social mobility agenda advocated by the UK government and how this varies according to their own subjective understanding of their work and social mobility. Using Psychosocial Interviewing and discourse analysis on a range of participants reliant on insecure low income work (zero-hours, temporary workers and self-employed on low income), the research will compare their understanding of key concepts within the social mobility agenda, such as personal responsibility, the acquisition of educational qualifications and the possibility to improve one's living standards. Finally, the research aims to use co-production methods to generate alternatives to the social mobility agenda which precarious workers feel could aid their mobility.