Precarious employment presents a challenge to the social, economic, and political stability of labour markets in industrialized societies. There is widespread consensus that its growth is contributing to common social inequalities. This collection yields ways of understanding the forces driving labour market insecurity.

Precarious employment presents a monumental challenge to the social, economic, and political stability of labour markets in industrialized societies and there is widespread consensus that its growth is contributing to a series of common social inequalities, especially along the lines of gender and citizenship.

The editors argue that these inequalities are evident at the national level across industrialized countries, as well as at the regional level within federal societies, such as Canada, Germany, the United States, and Australia and in the European Union. This book...