Globalized Urban Precarity in Berlin and Abidjan

Name: Globalized Urban Precarity in Berlin and Abidjan
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SKU: 9781526162090
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Young Men and the Digital Economy

By Hannah Schilling

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Globalized urban precarity in Berlin and Abidjan examines how urban youth navigate precarious work within digital economies. Through a comparative ethnography of young men selling air time in Abidjan and food delivery riders in Berlin, Hannah Schilling explores the complex realities of working in unstable urban environments. The book challenges common assumptions by analysing a broad range of economic practices beyond wage labour, highlighting how symbolic capital, adaptability, and access to care influence the unequal risks faced by these workers.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in urban studies, labour economics, sociology, and digital economies. It will appeal to academics, students, and professionals exploring the intersections of youth work, precarity, and urban inequality in global contexts.

The comparative ethnography of young airtime sellers in Abidjan and delivery riders in Berlin analyses experiences of precarity for young men in the urban digital economy. It points to the relevance of symbolic capital in relational mechanisms of closure, domination and exploitation for making a living in globalised precarity.

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Globalised Urban Precarity in Berlin and Abidjan examines urban youth's practices of making do in digital economies, to understand how precarious working conditions reverberate in the coming of age in contemporary cities.

Through a comparative analysis of the perspectives of young men working as air time sellers in Abidjan and food delivery riders in Berlin, the book provides innovative analytical lenses to understand urban inequalities against the backdrop of current digital urban developments.

Essentially, this ethnography challenges the easy conflation of instability with insecurity and overcomes the centrality of wage labour in research on urban livelihood by looking at a broader set of economic practices and relational mechanisms.

The analysis shows how accruing symbolic capital, a feel for the game in contexts of ambiguity, and access to care are fundamental for explaining the unequal distribution of risks for socio-material insecurities in unstable work settings.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781526162090

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 28 February 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Manchester University Press

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 138.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 417g

Pages: 232

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Education & Reference Finance & Economics Finance & Investment Hannah Schilling Non-Fiction

About the Author

Hannah Schilling is associated member and researcher at the Georg Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies, Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin