The word on the street: Simon Webb investigates the ‘precariat’
‘For some people today, every aspect of life is precarious.’
Sometimes, new words are ugly. Sometimes they are ugly in themselves, sometimes they are ugly because they name something that is itself ugly. One new word, ‘precariat’, is quite attractive in itself – a blend of ‘precarious’ and ‘proletariat’, two English words with French origins – but the fact that we need it is a decidedly ugly truth.
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