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Capitalism’s nervous breakdown

Author: Albena Azmanova, Dessy Gavrilova

Competitive labour markets, whether private or public, often set profit margins over employment rights. Job insecurity and new forms of exploitation are on the rise. As is the Far Right, cashing in on resultant worker anxieties. Is there a way out of this ‘precarity’, tormenting the overworked and underpaid?