Insecure Times - Paperback / softback

At a time when families break up and employment is often short-term, society is increasingly forced to operate against a background of insecurity. Insecure Timeslooks at how this sense of risk and instability has affected the major institutions of social life With examples and research taken from a range of European and North American societies today, this innovative text on contemporary society discusses such major issues as * the causes of social and economic insecurit * insecurity and modern capitalis * the role of the stat * insecurity and housin * contemporary family life.