Abstract：
Conceptualising precarity has come to rest on the multi-dimensional and differentiated insecurities of job and worker, this however belies the relationship between structure and experience where precarity originates. To bridge that relationship, I employ the landscape concept to position workers relative to the structural contingency of precarious work. To study this landscape, I conducted an ethnography involving job searching, working, and interviewing workers. While certainly insecure, these jobs displayed parallel characteristics of streamlined hiring and short-notice starts which workers took advantage of. I explore three ideal-typical \'jobs\'-the first, only, and best job-to examine how vulnerability is balanced with contingency to produce precarity. This analysis and the landscape approach locate the political-economic transformation of work in the context of workers\' lives and their labour market position. Taking precarious work is an act of balancing one\'s vulnerabilities in a way that constructs and thus naturalises precarity. Overall, the article contributes an image of an economy where workers have to be opportunistic in a continual struggle for work while stratified by their personal circumstances and position in this labour market.
摘要：
概念化的不稳定已经取决于工作和工人的多维和差异化的不安全感，然而，这掩盖了结构和经验之间的关系。为了弥合这种关系，我采用景观概念来定位工人相对于不稳定工作的结构性偶然性。为了研究这个景观，我做了一个涉及求职的人种学，工作,和采访工人。虽然肯定不安全，这些工作表现出简化的招聘和工人利用的短期通知开始的平行特征。我探索了三个理想典型的工作-第一个，只有,最好的工作-检查脆弱性如何与偶然性平衡以产生不稳定。这种分析和景观方法将工作的政治经济转型定位在工人的生活及其劳动力市场地位的背景下。从事不稳定的工作是一种平衡一个人的脆弱性的行为，这种方式可以构建并因此自然化不稳定。总的来说,这篇文章提供了一种经济形象，在这种经济中，工人必须在持续的工作斗争中机会主义，同时根据个人情况和在劳动力市场中的地位进行分层。
