Precarious employment presents a challenge to the social, economic, and political stability of labour markets in industrialized societies and there is widesprea

Using data from the German Microcensus and the British Labour Force Survey of the years 1982, 1984 and 1996, examines the influence of education on the likelyho

This book explores the precarious margins of contemporary labour markets. Over the last few decades, there has been much discussion of a shift from full-time pe

The literature on gender and science shows that scientific careers continue to be characterised – albeit with important differences among countries – by str

This volume presents original theory and research on precarious work in various parts of the world, identifying its social, political and economic origins, its