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  • Joseph Choonara
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This chapter concludes the analysis by summarising the work as a whole. It argues that the empirical work and theoretical approach contained in the book mark a challenge to the common sense on precarity and insecurity. It then locates the emerging common sense in a wider “retreat from class” that has taken place since the 1980s.

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  1. 1.School of BusinessUniversity of LeicesterLeicesterUK

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