Data from the countries which social theorists had in mind when they elaborated the idea of a new age of employment insecurity do not support their theories. If the age of insecurity is dawning anywhere, it is in Spain, Mexico, Portugal, Turkey, Finland and Poland. It is not plausible that these...

This e-special features examples from unemployment research published in Work, Employment and Society since the late 1980s. An early preoccupation was with the way a large section of the workforce had been removed from employment altogether. Over time, researchers paid more attention to groups...