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“Precarious employment” as a book category encompasses works that examine insecure, contingent, and low-protection forms of work—gig and platform labor, temporary and part‑time jobs, zero‑hours contracts, and informal economies. Books range from academic studies and policy analyses to investigative journalism and memoir, exploring unstable wages, unpredictable schedules, lack of benefits, and weak legal safeguards and how these shape daily life. The category probes drivers such as globalization, technological change, outsourcing, deregulation, and corporate strategy, tracing shifts from stable, unionized employment to flexible labor markets. It highlights intersections with migration, race, gender, disability, and youth, and frequently features sectoral case studies (care work, logistics, hospitality, and creative industries) across regions. Many titles also document worker organizing, union renewal, mutual aid, and policy debates over labor law, social insurance, minimum standards, and platform governance. Overall, the category blends structural critique with lived narratives to illuminate the human, economic, and political consequences of work without security.

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