Precarity is a key theme in political discourse in media and academic discussions of
employment and within the labour movement. Often the prevailing idea is of an endless march
of precarity rendering work ever more contingent and workers ever more disposable. However
this detailed study of the UK labour force challenges the picture of rising precarity and
widespread use of temporary employment suggesting instead that employment tenure and the
extent of temporary work have proved stubbornly stable over the past four decades.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 thesociology of work labour economics
industrial relations and political economy.
