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precarity
Sign in to savePrecarity (also precariousness) is a precarious existence, lacking in predictability, job security, material or psychological welfare. The social class defined by this condition has been termed the precariat.
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- Catholic origins
- Theories
- Precariat
- Precarious lives
- Precarity in old age
- Combatting precarity
- Global justice movement
- "San Precario"
- See also
- References
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Precarity (also precariousness) is a precarious existence, lacking in predictability, job security, material or psychological welfare. The social class defined by this condition has been termed the precariat.
==Catholic origins== Léonce Crenier, a Catholic monk who had previously been active as an anarcho-communist, may have established the English usage. In 1952 the term was documented by Dorothy Day, writing for the Catholic Worker Movement:
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