Alternative work

, 275

Application Program Interface (API)

, 158

Aspiration

, 169–171

Atypical work

, 275

Augmented reality (AR)

, 167

Bad job characteristics

, 143–147

Bad jobs

, 9, 15, 18, 126, 127, 132, 133, 140–143

Basic income

, 24

Best prison job

, 71

Buzz words

, 78

Capitalism

, 7, 9

Career management

, 7, 18, 20

Career trajectories

, 370–371

Casualization

, 132

Cell warriors

, 73

Civic money

, 23

Classification struggles

, 66–69

Classification struggles, concept of

, 63

CMEs. See Coordinated market economies (CMEs)

Constitutional asymmetry

, 35

Contingent work

, 275

Contract uncertainty

, 448–449

Contract work

costs and benefits of

, 431–434

personal lives

, 435–436

transnational settings

, 435–436

Control variables

, 137–138

Cool jobs

, 15

Coordinated market economies (CMEs)

, 246, 278

Coping mechanisms

, 97, 99, 101

Declining public sector employment

, 134

Deindustrialization

, 131

Democratization of insecurity

, 17

Demographics and early careers

, 382–386

Dependent variables

, 135–136, 254

Deregulation (or austerity) policies

, 43

Descriptive statistics

, 139

Early career setbacks

, 369–370

Early career trajectories

, 378–382

Economic policy

, 1

Elite politics

, 341

Employment

, 34, 35

definition of

, 37

deregulation of

, 42

effects on

, 44–46

flexibilization of

, 42

lacks continuity of

, 36

law

, 40

organized labor in

, 37

policy and regulation

, 39

quality of

, 40

relationship

, 37

temporary

, 39

Employment Services

, 137

European Union (EU)

, 35, 40, 43

European workfarism

, 51

European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS)

, 93, 103, 106, 117–118

Facework

, 69

Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)

, 223

Finance, insurance and real estate (FIRE)

, 194

Financial planning

, 442–443

Financialization

, 133–134

First marriage

, 405–407, 409–410

Fixed-term employment

, 95, 96

Flexibility

, 438–440

Flexible accumulation

, 9

Flexible labor

, 275

Food factory

, 70

Formal sector workers

, 340

Free knowledge workers

, 94

Full-time homemaker

, 103

Gender inequality

, 186, 189, 199, 205, 208, 216, 217, 221, 228, 236, 237

Gendered organizations

in new economy

, 217–219

German labor market

, 247–250

German Socio-Economic Panel

, 253

Germany’s unemployment

, 246

Global challenge

, 326–329

Globalization

, 133

Good jobs

, 9, 14, 23, 135, 140–143

Great Recession

, 127–130, 143

Hackathons

, 20, 161–164

Hacker subculture

, 160–161

Hard reforms

, 341, 342

Hearst Hackathon

, 166–168

Highly educated and skilled (HES)

, 430

Home-based work

, 317–322

Hypothetical factors

, 100–102

Independent cultural producer challenges

, 73–75

India

descriptive statistics

, 346

identification strategy

, 343–344

labor market and IRS

, 338–343

temporary contract employment

, 344–346

Indignado movement in Spain

, 20

Inequality

, 41, 45, 49

Informal employment

in global south

, 313–316

Inmate laborer challenges

, 71–73

Innovation

, 176–177

Insecure job

, 275

Insecurity culture

, 14, 15

Institutional change

, 260–264

Institutionalized social dialogue

, 340

International contract work

, 442–443

financial planning

, 442–443

romantic relationships

, 444–447

Internet of things (IoT)

, 167

Job instability

, 368–369

Job precarity

, 368–369

Jobless recovery

, 130

Labor circulation pool

, 337

Labor cost

, 354

Labor market

, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42

Labor market outcomes

, 258–260

Labor market precarity

, 93, 94, 100

Liberal market economies (LMEs)

, 278

Liquid modernity

, 3

LMEs. See Liberal market economies (LMEs)

Macro-economic and economic niche effects

, 386–390

Mancession

, 143

Manufacturing consent

, 161

Manufacturing innovation

, 161

Marketization

, 34, 35

Marriage

, 400, 401, 402

Mass politics

, 341

Metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs)

, 127

Monetary penalties

, 391–393

Morality

, 69

Multi-activity society

, 23

Narratives

, 220

Neoliberalism

, 15

New employment narrative

, 367–368

Non-profit organizations

, 169

Non-worker

, 69

Nonstandard work

, 186–188, 275

Oil industry

, 228, 235

Old economy

, 20

Ontological insecurity

, 3

Organizational logic

, 217

Organized capitalism

, 5

Participative mobilization

, 69

Peripheralization

, 45

Political responses

, 18–22

Political stability

, 1

Post-World War II period

, 2, 23, 128

Power Resource Theory

, 38–39, 275

Precariat

, 7

Precarious nonstandard work

, 192

Precarious work

collective bargaining

, 46–49

conceptualizing and measuring

, 277

conceptualizing precarious work vs. informal employment

, 313–314

consequences of

, 13–18, 34

employment policy

, 49–53

expansion of

, 188–190

and great recession

, 127–130

incentive reinforcement

, 50

institutionalization effects

, 46–53

macro-level predictors of

, 278–284

manifestations and trends

, 9–13

and marriage entry

, 407–408

motivation effect

, 52

precarious nonstandard work

, 192

policy changes and effects

, 54

precarious employment

, 185, 186, 187, 189, 195, 196, 250–253

regime of competition

, 54

social disciplining

, 52

social welfare

, 49–53

understanding

, 36–41

unemployment

, 49–53

work first approach

, 52

work precarity

assessing macro-level predictors of

, 292–296

country differences in

, 289–292

Precarity

, 317–322

Production networks

, 317–322

PRT. See Power resource theory (PRT)

Quality of jobs

, 2

Racial–gender lens

, 186–188

educational attainment and precarity

, 190–191

Recreation and career

, 171–174

Reputation

, 174–176

Reservation wages

, 35

Resume

, 77

Risk society

, 3

Self-deprecating self-promotion

, 222

Self-employment

, 322–326

Semi-formal work

, 62

Sharing economy

, 5

Skill-biased technological change (SBTC)

, 251

Skills

, 78

Social Model

, 41

Social movements

, 18–22

Socio-economic consequences

, 97

Software skills

, 78

Solidarity economy

, 22

Standard employment position

, 352

Structuring structures

, 220

Struggles

classification

, 66–69

for group legitimacy

, 80–81

for nomination

classificatory hierarchy

, 77–78

cross-sector dual employment

, 78–80

industrial citizenship

, 77–80

unionization and solidarity

, 75–77

for personal dignity

, 82–85

Subjective insecurity

, 97–99, 104

Symbolic acts of nomination

, 67

Tacit support

, 279

Tech space

, 158

Temporary employment

, 254

Theoretical foundations

, 3–9

Too-big-to-fail syndrome

, 129

Transportation, communication and public utilities (TCPU)

, 194

Tumbleweed society

, 14

U.S. General Social Survey (GSS)

, 11

Unequal returns to human capital

, 190, 203

Union decline

, 131–132

Universal (or unconditional) basic income (UBI)

, 24

US

foreign direct investment in

, 133

metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs)

, 127

Value imperialism

, 23

Vanishing corporation

, 5

Varieties of capitalism (VoC)

, 38, 275

Venture labor

, 169

Virtual reality (VR)

, 167

Voluntary and involuntary fixed-term jobs

, 97

Women scientists

, 221, 222, 231

Women’s work

, 69

Work ethic

, 71

Work society

, 23

Work transformation

, 217

Work, classification of

, 64–66

Workfare

, 20

Zombie category

, 6