Precarity - it isn’t about Employment, it is the Economy, Stupid

Precarity is commonly referred to as matter of employment and the increasing insecurity and instability of obtaining labour as secure and predictable foundation of socio-economic security - subsequently we find instability of inclusion, cohesiveness and empowerment (and/or perception). Alluding to the slogan «the economy, stupid» which had been guiding Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign in 1992, the slogan brought forward is here «Precarity - it isn’t employment, stupid». The thesis is that much of the debate on precarity is referring to a curtailed understanding of the economy, based in four main pillars: monetary gain, growth, competition and employment. The real challenge lies in addressing the limitations of the quadriga that dominates modern social science, namely methodological individualism, methodological nationalism, methodological solutionism and methodological presentism. The Object of the Study. Analysing precarious employment The Subject of the Study. Change of Methodological Requirements The Purpose of the Study. Identifying flaws of existing methodology of social science and perspectives for alternatives The main Provisions of the Article. Locating precarity within the framework of a changing economic formation