Contents

Foreword .................................................... 1
Peter Herrmann and Vyacheslav Bobkov

Economy of Difference and Social Differentiation ................... 25
Peter Herrmann

Society Under Threat of Precarity of Employment .................. 51
Vyacheslav Bobkov

Precarious Employment: Definition of the Concept Given by Russian Researchers ................................... 73
Natalia Loktyukhina

Digitisation: A New Form of Precarity or New Opportunities?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Irina Viktorovna Novikova

Labour Market Performance and Digitisation of Work in Russia: Brief Overview ............................... 105
Olesya Veredyuk

Australia’s Precarious Workforce and the Role of Digitisation ................................................ 117
Veronica Sheen

The Czech Republic—a Case Study .............................. 131
Nicole Horáková Hirschler

“Predictable Uncertainty”—Social Land Programme in Hungary ................................................... 147
Judit Csoba

Affirmative and Alternative Discourses and Practices of Knowledge Production and Distribution in Turkey ............... 165
Mehmet Okyayuz

Electric Dreams of Welfare in the 4th Industrial Revolution: An Actor-network Investigation and Genealogy of an Algorithm ..................................... 181
Ray Griffin, Tom Boland, Aisling Tuite and Aoife Hennessy

Bringing Precarity to the Political Agenda ......................... 205
Vadim Kvachev

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