Kuriukin, A.N. (2025). Precariat as a phenomenon and trend of the evolution of society in the digital age: Experience of socioeconomic analysis. Sociopolitical Sciences, 15(5), 155–180. DOI: 10.33693 ...

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to form a comprehensive presentation in the prism of the characteristics of its understanding, economic and social characteristics, as a dynamically evolving socio-economic phenomenon. Methods: analysis, synthesis, comparison, retrospective research, economic, sociological, legal. Results of the work: an in-depth study of the conceptual and phenomenological essence of the precariat was conducted, the main approaches (American, European, Russian) to the study and explanation of the precariat in real time were formulated, an economic and social characteristic of the modern precariat was given, a prognostic scenario for the further evolution of the precariat was proposed. Conclusions: 1. A single understanding of the precariat, as well as its clear class characteristics today, is absent; 2. In world social science, three major approaches to the study of the precariat have been formed - American, European, Russian; 3. In the foreseeable future, the main source of the precariat will be the digitalization of entire industries and the transfer of professions to AI; 4. The most likely scenario is a negative one, in which the precariat will progress both formally and substantively.