{"id":5,"date":"2021-08-02T17:32:34","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T21:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/precarity\/precarity-lab\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T08:01:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T12:01:29","slug":"precarity-lab","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/precarity\/","title":{"rendered":"Precarity &#038; Inequality Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment112\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment112\" style=\"width: 646px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/precarity\/files\/2021\/08\/thumbnail_IMG_8713-e1629658536476-636x248.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-112 size-medium\" width=\"636\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/precarity\/files\/2021\/08\/thumbnail_IMG_8713-e1629658536476-636x248.jpeg 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/precarity\/files\/2021\/08\/thumbnail_IMG_8713-e1629658536476-1024x399.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/precarity\/files\/2021\/08\/thumbnail_IMG_8713-e1629658536476-768x299.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/precarity\/files\/2021\/08\/thumbnail_IMG_8713-e1629658536476.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment112\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Patrick Autr\u00e9aux &#8211; Crescent City, California<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Launched as a joint-project between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\">Boston University<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sociology<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/questrom\/faculty-research\/academic-departments\/management-organizations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Management and Organizations<\/a> departments in April 2020, the Precarity Lab has provided doctoral students and faculty members an intellectual community for<span>\u00a0<\/span><span>discussing and developing research projects concerning today\u2019s <\/span><span>precarious nature of work, organizations, and markets<\/span><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The word precarity likely traces its roots to the French term <em class=\"mw_t_it\">pr\u00e9carit\u00e9, pr\u00e9caire (<\/em>borrowed from the Latin <em class=\"mw_t_it\">prec\u0101rius<\/em>), meaning &#8220;granted or exercised only with the permission of another, insecure, uncertain.&#8221; In the social sciences, precarious experiences have come to encompass states in which people feel uncertain, insecure or at the mercy of others.<\/p>\n<p>By naming ourselves the Precarity Lab, we initially wanted to emphasize our commitment to understanding the experiences of those most vulnerable. Given the relational nature of precarity, doing so, required us, however, to study both those experiences as well as those of people in positions of power. We re-named ourselves in 2025 the Precarity &amp; Inequality Lab to captures the full range of dynamics at play.<\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span>Precarity &amp; Inequality Lab supports its members and other participants by hosting regular gatherings to discuss and workshop ongoing research projects. Generous funding from Boston University&#8217;s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future provided seed money for the Lab&#8217;s activities.<span><\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launched as a joint-project between Boston University&#8217;s Sociology and Management and Organizations departments in April 2020, the Precarity Lab has provided doctoral students and faculty members an intellectual community for\u00a0discussing and developing research projects concerning today\u2019s precarious nature of work, organizations, and markets. The word precarity likely traces its roots to the French term pr\u00e9carit\u00e9, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19606,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/precarity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/precarity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/precarity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/precarity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19606"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/precarity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/precarity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/precarity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/precarity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}