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Job Insecurity is a category focused on the causes, experiences, and consequences of unstable work in a changing economy. It spans investigative journalism, social science, and policy analysis on layoffs, outsourcing, automation, and the gig/platform economy; personal memoirs from workers navigating precarious schedules and income volatility; practical guides for resilience, upskilling, and career transitions; and fiction that dramatizes the human toll of uncertainty. Core themes include power and precarity in the workplace, identity and dignity, mental health, inequality across class, race, and gender, and the roles of unions, management, and public policy. Together, these books illuminate how job instability reshapes lives and communities while offering frameworks and strategies for adapting—and for imagining fairer, more secure systems of work.

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