Precarious Voices? Types of “Political Citizens” and Repertoires of Action among European Youth

In spite of cross national differences, one of the most relevant concerns for young European people nowadays, is represented by job insecurity. In this contribution, the authors aim to shed light on the triggering role of job precariousness and unemployment on individual repertoires of political actions among young people in three European cities (Lyon in France, Turin in Italy, Cologne in Germany). Theo-retically, the paper addresses the existing limitations in the literature on precarious workers’ political par-ticipation by proposing a new comprehensive framework which includes a broad set of actions, including institutionalized and non-institutionalized forms of political action (e.g. petitions, public demonstrations, disruptive actions). Empirically, a quantitative descriptive technique - Latent Class Cluster Analysis (LCCA)- is deployed allowing to take into account different variables (e.g. socio-demographic conditions, educa-tional attainment, age, employment status and political beliefs) to portray, for each city under analysis and for each “mode” of participation, a set of ideal-typical individual profiles.

尽管存在跨国差异，当前欧洲青年最关切的核心议题之一便是工作不安全感。本研究旨在阐明，在法国里昂、意大利都灵、德国科隆这三座欧洲城市的青年群体中，工作不稳定与失业对其政治行动谱系所起到的触发作用。理论层面，本研究针对现有关于不稳定就业劳动者政治参与的文献所存在的局限，提出了一套全新的综合性分析框架，该框架涵盖了包括制度化与非制度化政治行动在内的多元行动类型，例如请愿、公开示威、对抗性行动等。实证层面，本研究采用了定量描述性分析方法——潜在类别聚类分析（Latent Class Cluster Analysis, LCCA），该方法可纳入社会人口学特征、受教育程度、年龄、就业状态与政治信仰等多项变量，从而为所分析的每座城市、每种参与模式，刻画一组理想典型的个体画像。