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The early industrial period, as famously portrayed by Marx (1867: Chapter 25) was characterized by misery. The Fordist period was characterized by boredom in secure but monotonous jobs and an anxiety relieving but bureaucratic welfare infrastructure (Institute for Precarious Consciousness, 2014: 247). The contemporary neoliberal period, by contrast, is characterised by anxiety as the dominant affect, and this is closely associated with precarity (ibid.: 275).