This book provides international and transdisciplinary perspectives on Hyperprecarity and
Social Structural Transformations in European Societies USA and Russia enforced through other
special transformation processes such as digitalisation migration and demographic change. It
has been observed that precarity and social insecurity do not refer any longer only to certain
groups of the society such as unemployed people or to those ones who are ¿traditionally¿ more
in need of social benefit etc. but it accompanies and affects greater parts of the society
particularly those sections of the middleclass who conceive their social identity merely via
their work ethics. Consequentially new forms of social exclusion are being producing taxing the
traditional social cohesion in European societies due to the demand of new forms of flexibility
and mobility from the working people. This process can be termed with the notion
'Hyperprecarisation'. This book contains contributions from scientists all over Europe Russia
and the USA who are members of the SUPI network ¿Social Uncertainty Prequarity Inequality¿.
PD Dr. Rolf Hepp teaches at the Institut for Soziologie at the FU Berlin and coordinates the
S.U.P.I.-Network. Dr. David Kergel teaches at Universität Siegen Medienwissenschaftliches
Seminar. Dr. Robert Riesinger (Prof. a.D. FH Joanneum Graz) is author and researcher for
sociology in Steyerberg.
