Tertiary time: The precariat's dilemma

Standing, Guy

Abstract

Progressive politics has always been about the struggle to reduce social inequities and inequalities. What takes priority depends on the type of society we live in. Today people in rich countries live in societies that are tertiary, not industrial, in that what they do is largely covered by “services.” In a tertiary society, one iniquitous form of inequality is control of time. Time is a key asset. But we do not have a conceptualization of tertiary time. We must rectify that so as to develop a progressive politics of time.

Citation

Standing, G. (2013). Tertiary time: The precariat's dilemma. Public Culture, 25(1 69), 5-23. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1890432

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2013
• Deposit Date: Mar 11, 2013
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 11, 2025
• Journal: Public Culture
• Print ISSN: 0899-2363
• Electronic ISSN: 1527-8018
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 25
• Issue: 1 69
• Pages: 5-23
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1890432
• Keywords: precariat, time, politics of time, inequality, work, leisure
• Publisher URL: http://publicculture.dukejournals.org/content/25/1_69/5.abstract