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> In 2011, economist Guy Standing coined the term “precariat” Not really. It began to appear in German books in 2005 (https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?con
by legulere 10y ago
> In 2011, economist Guy Standing coined the term “precariat”
Not really. It began to appear in German books in 2005 (https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Prekariat&year_start=1950&year_end=2015&corpus=20&smoothing=0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Prekariat&year...) and searches took off in the end of 2006 https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Prekariat%2C%20precariat&cmpt=q https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=Prekariat%2C%20preca... The German version of the word is still more common.
It actually really surprised me that the word is so young, as I think the word is pretty much common knowledge in German.