This was an interesting stance on categorizing the global socio-economic class of the precariat. The precariat is named as so as a portmanteau of precarious and proletariat and describes so many people who are trapped in this in ability to find stable work and who's qualifications vastly out weight their current job prospects due to the commodification of education. Guy Standing has a TED talk on this topic for those who are interested that I find to be much more concise and more captivating research that this novel. While his findings are a bit biased and definitely read as coming from his lense as a white, british economist, he still does make a lot of excellent points. Check out the TED talk before you decide if you want to read this one.