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Researchers working in sociology, public policy, and other areas in the US, Europe, South Africa, and India present 15 essays on work that is uncertain, unstable, and insecure, and in which employees bear the risks of and receive limited social benefits and statutory protections. They address precarious work and the regime of competition in Europe; classification struggles in semi-formal and precarious work in inmate labor and a local independent culture industry; the conceptualization and measurement of job precarity; precarious work in the US, including the impact of the Great Recession, hackathons, and the role of race, gender, and educational attainment; international perspectives from Germany, Europe, the global south, and India; and the consequences of precarious work for early careers, the transition to marriage, and contract workers. -- Annotation (c)2018 * (protoview.com) *

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Arne L. Kalleberg is Kenan Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. He has written extensively on work, stratification and inequality, in particular on the emergence of nonstandard work arrangements such as temporary, contract, and part-time work in the US, Asia and Europe. His most recent publication is Precarious Lives: Job Insecurity and Well-Being in Rich Democracies and he is also Editor of Social Forces: An International Sociological Journal. Steven P. Vallas is Professor of Sociology at Northeastern University, USA. He has written numerous books and articles on work and authority systems in various industries including, most recently, Work: A Critique and The Sage Handbook of Resistance (co-edited with David Courpasson).

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