Precarious Lives

Job Insecurity and Well-Being in Rich Democracies
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5095-0649-1
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 147 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

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. Kalleberg examines the impact of the liberalization of labor markets and welfare systems on the growth of precarious work and job insecurity for indicators of well-being such as economic insecurity, the transition to adulthood, family formation, and happiness, in six advanced capitalist democracies: the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Spain, and Denmark. This insightful cross-national analysis demonstrates how active labor market policies and generous social welfare systems can help to protect workers and give employers latitude as they seek to adapt to the rise of national and global competition and the rapidity of sweeping technological changes. Such policies thereby form elements of a new social contract that offers the potential for addressing many of the major challenges resulting from the rise of precarious work.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kalleberg, Arne L

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Beschäftigung, Arbeitslosigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie der Lebensart, Well-Being
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Fragen & Probleme

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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