Purpose

This paper aims to explore narratives of insecurity to understand how the casualisation of the employment relationship makes life more fragile and precarious. The authors engage in an inquiry about how multinational enterprises (MNEs) structure precariousness for workers in emerging economies. The authors attempt to understand how workers analyse their experiences of precariousness and what form their resistance takes as a result of their analysis.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors engage with the narratives of eight Indian workers/trade union activists working in different marginal spaces of the Indian economy to uncover a commons where we are the multitude. By commons, the authors imply shared forms of property, which stand against the concept of private property that is central to the social relations of capitalism. The authors are performing the data of workers by interspersing them in an analysis of angst and hope.

Findings

Workers understand their experiences of precariousness as emerging from a complex political economy structured by MNEs, which involves multiple fronts of marginalisation. Workers realize that they need to engage in comprehensive forms of resistance to undo the regimes of precariousness. Workers create shared universes of grief to relate to each other’s experiences of precariousness. The unfreedoms experienced by workers lead to a sharing of the social relations of commons where workers can resist by expressing solidarity with each other.

Practical implications

The authors contribute to practice by arguing that workers’ collectives should not accept the naturalisation of precariousness. By staging a dialogue about the injuries of precariousness, they can craft a politics of resistance that begins the process of commoning.

Social implications

Workers’ politics of resistance can significantly democratise the global political economy in important ways by advancing the potential for commons.

Originality/value

The authors make an original contribution to the study of precariousness in the context of international business by arguing that the experience of precariousness can lead to a commons where workers resist structures of injustice.

中文翻译：

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不安全政权的真相和不自由以及公地的抵抗

目的

本文旨在探讨不安全感的叙述，以了解雇佣关系的临时化如何使生活更加脆弱和不稳定。作者调查了跨国企业 (MNE) 如何为新兴经济体的工人构建不稳定性。作者试图了解工人如何分析他们的不稳定经历，以及他们的分析结果是他们的抵抗形式。

设计/方法/途径

作者通过讲述在印度经济不同边缘领域工作的八名印度工人/工会积极分子的故事，来揭示我们众多的共同点。通过公地，作者暗示了财产的共享形式，这与作为资本主义社会关系核心的私有财产概念背道而驰。作者通过将工人的数据穿插在对焦虑和希望的分析中来执行这些数据。

发现

工人们将他们的不稳定经历理解为来自跨国公司构建的复杂政治经济，其中涉及多方面的边缘化。工人们意识到他们需要采取全面的抵抗形式来消除不稳定的制度。工人们创造了共同的悲伤世界，将彼此的不稳定经历联系起来。工人所经历的不自由导致共享公共社会关系，工人可以通过表达彼此的团结来抵制。

实际影响

作者通过论证工人集体不应接受不稳定的自然化来为实践做出贡献。通过就不稳定的伤害展开对话，他们可以制定一种抵抗政治，开始共同化的过程。

社会影响

工人的抵抗政治可以通过提高公地的潜力，以重要的方式使全球政治经济显着民主化。

原创性/价值

作者通过论证不稳定的经历会导致工人抵制不公正结构的公地，对国际商业背景下的不稳定研究做出了原创性贡献。