Book Review: Re-Union – How Bold Labor Reforms Can Repair, Revitalize, and Reunite the United States

Abstract

really driven by the changing character of employment in the context of a wide range of societal, political, economic and cultural considerations. Rather than a shortcoming, however, this can be seen as an opportunity to drive new empirical research that would strengthen causal relationships between precariousness and well-being, focusing on post-pandemic labour markets in developed democracies, but also worldwide. To conclude, the book is a timely and important contribution to the relatively large body of literature on precarious work (see, for example, Choonara et al., 2022). While focusing on the drivers and broader effects of precarious work on well-being, it leaves space for more research on the roles of agency and power resources in understanding why precarious work emerges and how it interacts with other aspects of well-being across different institutional settings. The book by Doellgast et al. (2018) partly does justice to the role of agency and power relations in understanding precarious work and solidarity across relevant stakeholders, but the existing body of literature on precarious work and its institutional and welfare buffers is certainly not exhaustive. Rather, it is gaining even more relevance with technological change, and changing paradigms of work, life, policy and institutions in post-COVID labour markets.