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“Economic Insecurity” is a category for books that explore the causes, lived experiences, and consequences of financial precarity for individuals, families, and communities. It spans nonfiction—economics, sociology, history, public policy, and investigative journalism—as well as memoir and fiction that illuminate how instability shapes everyday life. Core themes include precarious work and wages, the gig economy, layoffs and automation, debt, housing and food insecurity, rising costs for healthcare and education, wealth and income inequality, and the strengths and gaps in social safety nets across different regions and groups. These books also examine shocks like recessions and pandemics and the responses to them, from labor organizing and mutual aid to social insurance and proposals such as universal basic income. Collectively, they humanize and explain what it means to make ends meet in an uncertain economy.

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