Abstract
It is widely acknowledged that the closing decades of the twentieth century, and the early
decades of the twenty‐first century, have been marked by growing economic insecurity across
the globe. But how we understand this process is highly contested. What are the sources of
economic insecurity? To what extent do contemporary forms of economic and political
organisation mark a break from the past? What analytical tools do we need to make sense of
the current moment? Are new concepts needed, or will well‐established concepts suffice?
What are the implications of growing economic insecurity for questions of agency, solidarity,
class struggle and social change? How does economic insecurity relate to various forms of
collective organisation such as trade unions, political parties and community‐based
organisations?