ABSTRACT

For the past two decades employment in Britain has been marked by a search for greater flexibility in the availability and use of labour. In recent years, however, there has been mounting concern at the costs of this trend and an appreciation that the consequence of a flexible labour market may be an insecure workforce, vulnerable to exploitation.

chapter 1|24 pages

The Insecurity Thesis

chapter 2|14 pages

Insecurity and the flexible workforce

Measuring the ill-defined

chapter 3|18 pages

Heaven knows I’m miserable now

Job insecurity in the British labour market

chapter 6|28 pages

Gendered employment insecurity?

chapter 7|15 pages

Management and the insecure workforce

The search for a new psychological contract