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Precarious Lives

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

Precarious Lives

By Arne L. Kalleberg

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About the book

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...Show more

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9781509506507

Publisher

Polity Press

Published year

2018

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1

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Precarious Lives

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Paperback

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