Andrew Ross, Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times NYU Press, 2009
The era of stable, secure, steady work with one employer is over. According to Andrew Ross, precarity has become a central element in people's lives. What explains the rise of contingent employment, and how prevalent has it become in the creative economy and in education? Ross talks about recent trends and their impact, and offers his vision of an alternative to "flexploitation."