The word 'precarity' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a state of existence in which one's safety, security, or well-being is vulnerable and uncertain. For example, "Many people live in precarity due to the lack of access to stable employment."
Yet for São Paulo's poorest, water precarity and self-reliance have been a fact of life since long before this current crisis – often to an extreme degree.
That precarity has extended to the legal landscape, where harsher sentences are being handed down with each arrest.
On top of this, the extortionate housing market, the withdrawal of benefits, the stress and precarity of the job market makes one thing crystal clear: we are a generation with very few options, bearing the brunt of a government that considers us irrelevant.
The proposal notes the "growing crisis of low pay and precarity in the labour market", says the existing social security system is unable to provide proper income support to people on low incomes, calls for research into basic income's potential, and welcomes previous research taken by non-government organisations.
Swans had a great plan to offset the world's increasing precarity: build a semi-career discussing police brutality and labor relations, stick around until your lyrics have become Twitter fodder, then turn up stronger at fifty-eight than you were at twenty-eight, quite possibly outlasting the most famous band of your cohort.
Given the urgency of the subject, it's a pity that Ross didn't give more space to European developments, such as the colorful "precarity" protest movement and the discussion of policies that could extend labor rights to all workers.
I used to imagine that North Rosedale Park was born fully formed as an élite retreat for judges and surgeons and executives, and that Detroit's post-riot fall gave it its first taste of precarity.
However, as centuries progressed and stable categories faltered, the hero figure faces increasing precarity.
Balancing full-time single-parenthood, the precarities of freelance writing and a series of disastrous relationships damn near sapped my soul.
Piano said the rods would look like lace, and at one point he spoke of his desire to juxtapose "the 'precarity' of the lace and the strength of the steel".
But since the beginning of the financial crisis it is the 'precarity rate' that has really taken off – the number of people who feel economically precarious.
