Precarious Lives addresses one of the most important developments in employment relations in the neoliberal era: increase in labor precarity and the subsequent decline in employee well-being. Drawing on data on social welfare institutions and labor market policies in six rich democracies, the author shows that work is less precarious, and workers are happier, when institutions and policies provide job protection, and put in place support systems to buffer job loss.

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不稳定的种类：不安全的工作如何表现出来，如何影响幸福感，并受到社会福利机构和劳动力市场政策的影响

不稳定的生活解决了新自由主义时代雇佣关系中最重要的发展之一：劳动力不稳定的增加以及随后员工福利的下降。作者利用六个富裕民主国家的社会福利机构和劳动力市场政策的数据表明，当机构和政策提供工作保护并建立支持系统以缓冲失业时，工作的不稳定因素会减少，工人会更快乐。