COVID-19 devastated the ability of self-employed and freelance live performers working in the UK’s live entertainment industries to sustain a living in an already precarious sector of employment. It also exposed the inadequacies of existing ways of conceptualising precarity in allowing a complete understanding of performers’ experiences of precarious employment, particularly during such a crisis. Combining research into precarity, recognition theory and qualitative data on how such performers experienced and responded to the pandemic, this article identifies two forms of precarity they experienced: socioeconomic and recognitive. In doing so, it contributes to the sociology of work by demonstrating how these two modes of precarity generated considerable operational and existential challenges for performers while extending the conceptualisation of precarity in such a way as to offer a more nuanced understanding of its impact, not only on the livelihoods of those experiencing it but also on their work identities and sense of self.

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COVID-19 及之后的现场表演者的不稳定经历和认可

COVID-19 摧毁了在英国现场娱乐行业工作的自营职业者和自由职业现场表演者在本已不稳定的就业领域维持生计的能力。它还暴露了现有的不稳定概念化方法的不足之处，无法全面了解表演者的不稳定就业经历，特别是在这样的危机期间。本文结合对不稳定因素的研究、认​​知理论和关于这些表演者如何经历和应对这一流行病的定性数据，确定了他们经历的两种形式的不稳定因素：社会经济和认知。在此过程中，它通过展示这两种不稳定模式如何为表演者带来相当大的操作和生存挑战，同时扩展不稳定的概念，以提供对其影响的更细致的理解，从而对工作社会学做出贡献，不仅影响那些经历过这种情况的人的生计，也影响他们的工作身份和自我意识。