Wissenschaftliche Einführung in die Arbeitssoziologie, behandelt werden begriffliche Grundlagen (u.a. "Normalarbeitsverhältnis", "atypische Beschäftigung", "Prekarisierung"), wesentliche Theorieansätze sowie Forschungsbefunde zur aktuellen Entwicklung und Bewertung politischer Strategien. (3)

I consider the concept of employment insecurity and provide new evidence for 1997 and 2005 for many countries with widely differing institutional contexts and at varying stages of development. There are no grounds for accepting that workplaces were going through a sea-change in employment...

The last decades have shown that the traditional steady job with a permanent contract is on the decline. While permanent contracts and the insider position that they bring are highly valued by workers, research on the returns to human capital have predominantly focused on wages as subject of...