ABSTRACT
This chapter presents three themes of precariousness that are interpreted through author experiences from four ethnographically studied cases of social entrepreneurship. In his book The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (2011), Guy Standing describes how the labour market's conditions have changed during a – historically speaking – relatively short period of time. It is almost 13 years since the author started to research alternative forms of entrepreneurship, such as social entrepreneurship, that have emerged during the past two decades. After almost a decade under a centre-right government, Sweden has also, like many other (Western) nations, undergone a shift of political rule, from the Scandinavian welfare society to a neoliberal focus on entrepreneurialism. Social entrepreneurs are individuals with ambitions to take care of people who find themselves in precarious situations and remove them from insecurity, often through embracing the logic of entrepreneurship itself.
