Precarious employment presents a 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. This title aims to yield various ways of understanding the forces driving labour market insecurity. For both its empirical and its theoretical content, this book is an essential addition
to the libraries of scholars of gender, of work/life balance, and of what
the editors prefer to call 'precariousness in employment. - Anne Junor, Industrial Relations Research Centre, The University of New South Wales, Australia