Insecurity, Precarious Work and Labour Markets Challenging the Orthodoxy /

• Main Author: Choonara, Joseph (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Industrial sociology.; Labor economics.; Political economy.; Sociology of Work.; Labor Economics.; International Political Economy.

Precarity is a key theme in political discourse, in media and academic discussions of employment, and within the labour movement. Often, the prevailing idea is of an endless march of precarity, rendering work ever more contingent and workers ever more disposable. However, this detailed study of the...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: The Precarity Debate
• 2. Theorists of Transformation
• 3. Conceptualising Precarity and Insecurity
• 4. Is Work Being De-standardised?
• 5. Is Employment Tenure Declining?
• 6. Rethinking Labour Markets
• 7. An Epidemic of Insecurity?
• 8. Conclusions.