‘You Don’t Know’

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‘You Don’t Know’ is written by Jacob A. E. Nielsen and published by Berghahn Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1805398989 (ISBN 10) and 9781805398981 (ISBN 13).

People employed at sites of precarious work such as call centres or retail warehouses often live precarious lives. Drawing on ethnographic research in a London hostel for precarious workers, the book explores the political, analytical and practical limitations of using traditional methods of trying to make sense of life in these settings. Traditional methods are rooted in practices that emerge from privileged social positions and their enactment is deeply entangled with the processes that create these conditions in the first place. This book responds to this by experimenting with ‘precarious methods’ to enable greater agency to those placed in these precarious situations.