Precarious Lives: Job Insecurity and Well-Being in Rich Democracies

ISBN-13: 9781509506507 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 248 str.

Arne L. Kalleberg

Opis

Employment relations in advanced, post-industrial democracies have become increasingly insecure and uncertain as the risks associated with work are being shifted from employers and governments to workers. Arne L.

Recenzje

This book addresses one of the most pressing issues of the day: how precarious work is leading to precarious lives. By drawing on experiences in six diverse countries, it provides a potentially optimistic agenda for policy to halt or reverse the damage. In calling not only for wider social protection for all engaged in all forms of work but also for action, supported by worker organization, to change employer practices and stem the growth of precarious work, Kalleberg offers a useful alternative policy framework to the ultimately defeatist basic income approach where regulation of employers and of work itself is downgraded.
Jill Rubery, The University of Manchester

This latest book by Arne Kalleberg offers a powerful conception of precarity, how it takes distinct forms under different employment regimes, and most important perhaps how the rise of precarious work has reached deep into the private realm, threatening the well–being and family lives of workers. Sure to become a classic in the field.
Steven Peter Vallas, Northeastern University

Spis treści

• List of figures
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Part I. Theoretical Foundations
• 1. The New Age of Precarious Work
• 2. Social Welfare Protection and Labor Market Institutions
• Part II. Manifestations of Precarious Work
• 3. Nonstandard Employment Relations
• 4. Job Insecurity
• Part III. Dimensions of Well–Being
• 5. Economic Insecurity
• 6. Transition to Adulthood and Family Formation
• 7. Subjective Well–Being
• Part IV. Responses to Precarious Work and Lives
• 8. Politics and Policies of Precarious Work
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References

O autorze

Arne L. Kalleberg is a Kenan Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and served as President of the American Sociological Association in 2007–08