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Insecurity, Precarious Work and Labour Markets Challenging the Orthodoxy

:	Joseph Choonara
:	Insecurity, Precarious Work and Labour Markets Challenging the Orthodoxy
:	Palgrave Macmillan
:	9783030133306
:	1
:	CHF 77.10
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:	Arbeits-, Wirtschafts- und Industriesoziologie
:	English

:	257
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Choonara offers a new approach to labour markets, drawing on the theoretical underpinnings of Marxist political economy to interrogate research data from the UK. This book examines why, despite the deteriorating conditions in work, employment relations have remained stable, and offers insight into the extent of subjective insecurity among workers. Insecurity, Precarious Work and Labour Markets will be of use to students and scholars across the sociology of work, labour economics, industrial relations and political economy.

Joseph Choonara is Lecturer in the School of Business, University of Leicester, UK.

	Preface and Acknowledgements	5
	Contents	7
	List of Figures	8
	List of Tables	10
	1 Introduction: The Precarity Debate	12
	1.1What Is at Stake?	12
	1.2The Need for Data	16
	1.3A Note on Terminology: Precarity, Insecurity, Contingency	18
	1.4The Neoliberal Period	19
	1.5Class, Work and Workplaces	21
	1.6The Structure of the Argument	24
	References	25
	2 Theorists of Transformation	29
	2.1Introduction	29
	2.2Apostles of New Capitalism	30
	2.3From Marx to the Multitude	41
	2.4From Precarity to the Precariat	47
	2.5Beyond the Precariat	55
	2.6Dual Labour Markets, Segmentation and Flexibility	60
	2.7Summary	66
	References	66
	3 Conceptualising Precarity and Insecurity	72
	3.1Introduction	72
	3.2Visions of Precarity	73
	3.3Towards a Definition of Precarity	80
	3.4Visions of Insecurity	81
	3.5Towards a Definition of Insecurity	84
	3.6Summary	85
	References	85
	4 Is Work Being De-standardised?	89
	4.1Introduction	89
	4.2Part-Time Work	90
	4.3Temporary Contracts	94
	4.4Agency Work	104
	4.5Zero-Hours Contracts	109
	4.6Self-Employment and the Gig Economy	120
	4.7Summary	134
	References	136
	5 Is Employment Tenure Declining?	142
	5.1Introduction	142
	5.2Studies of UK Job Tenure	143
	5.3The Aggregate Evolution of Tenure	146
	5.4The Pattern of Redundancies	150
	5.5Female Employment, Part-Time Work and Tenure	151
	5.6Tenure by Job Type	156
	5.7Tenure by Employee Characteristics	159
	5.8Younger Workers	163
	5.9Summary	164
	References	166
	6 Rethinking Labour Markets	169
	6.1Introduction	169
	6.2Employment and Two-Way Dependence	170
	6.3Countermovements	175
	6.4Reproductive Imperatives	177
	6.5The Role of Legislation	181
	6.6The Structuring of Labour Markets	186
	6.7The Reserve Army	191
	6.8Varieties of Self-Employment	194
	6.9Summary	198
	References	198
	7 An Epidemic of Insecurity?	204
	7.1Introduction	204
	7.2Drivers of Insecurity	205
	7.3The Evolution of Job Tenure Insecurity	209
	7.4Acute and Generalised Job Tenure Insecurity	217
	7.5Job Status Insecurity	219
	7.6Summary	225
	References	227
	8 Conclusions	229
	8.1The Problems of Precarity and Insecurity	229
	8.2Against the Common Sense	230
	8.3The Role of Political Economy	233
	8.4Precarity and the Retreat from Class	234
	References	241
	Appendix	243
	References	252
	Index	254