Job Insecurity and Life Courses

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'This rigorous and empirically rich book offers a compelling alternative to both narrowly economistic analyses and more diffuse invocations of precarity, grounding insecurity firmly within comparative life-course sociology. In doing so, it invites scholars to rethink not only how insecurity is distributed, but also how it accumulates across lives and institutions, and what the long-term consequences are for inequality in contemporary societies.' British Journal of Sociology "This excellent volume offers a unique life-course perspective on job insecurity in contemporary Europe. It provides a rich collection of empirical data and analyses of how job insecurity differs for entry-level, mid-career and older workers in different welfare regimes. The book describes the relationship of objective labour market conditions (e.g. the increasing use of fixed-term contracts) and the subjective strategies of individuals who have to make decisions in situations of job insecurity. It is a must-read for labour market researchers, students, practitioners and policy makers." Hans-Peter Blossfeld, University of Bamberg "An innovative and impressive piece of research, based on significant quantitative and qualitative data, which shows how objective and subjective job insecurity is determined both by age and by different European institutional regimes." Emilio Reyneri, University of Milan Bicocca