Precarious Lives

  • Precarious Lives: Job Insecurity and Well-Being in Rich Democracies
    By Arne L. Kalleberg

    Kalleberg, Arne L. 2011. Good Jobs, Bad Jobs: The Rise of Polarized and Precarious Employment Systems in the United States, 1970s to 2000s. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation. Kalleberg, Arne L. and Kevin Hewison. 2013.

  • Precarious Lives: Job Insecurity and Well-Being in Rich Democracies
    By Arne L. Kalleberg

    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, ...

  • Precarious Lives: Forced Labour, Exploitation and Asylum
    By Lewis, Peter, Hannah

    ... migrants in the international division of labour, Aldershot: Avebury/Gower Publishing Group. Cohen, S. (2002) Folk devils and moral panics: the creation of the mods and rockers (3rd edition), London: Routledge.

  • Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran
    By Shahram Khosravi

    Drawing on extensive ethnographic engagement with youth in Tehran and Isfahan as well as with migrant workers in rural areas, Shahram Khosravi weaves a tapestry from individual stories, government reports, statistics, and cultural analysis ...

  • Precarious Lives: Forced labour, exploitation and asylum
    By Lewis, Peter, Hannah

    What our empirical research on the working lives of asylum seekers and refugees in the UK suggests more generally – irrespective ... and also to acknowledge the profoundly destabilising effects of precarious work on broader lifeworlds.

  • Precarious Lives
    By Jean Watkins

    Precarious Lives

  • Precarious Lives: Job Insecurity and Well-Being in Rich Democracies
    By Arne L. Kalleberg

    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, ...

  • Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran
    By Shahram Khosravi

    ... life condition. (2015:593) The prevalent sense of an insecure life, a precarious life, among Iranians, particularly among the youth, is the focus of this chapter, which also aims to encapsulate the main themes of the book. Here I use ...

  • Precarious Lives: Forced Labour, Exploitation and Asylum
    By Peter Dwyer, Carmel Smith

    This study presents the first evidence of forced labour among displaced migrants who seek refuge in the UK. Through a critical engagement with contemporary debates about precarity, unfreedom and socio-legal status, the book explores how ...