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In the current culture of short-term contracts, flexibility and constant change, we seem to be constantly on the move without ever really getting anywhere. In both our private lives and our professional roles, we are urged to strive ceaselessly for self-fulfilment and success, whilst at the same time the structure of society deprives us of the conditions necessary to succeed and blames the individual when dreams go unfulfilled.

Drawing on his own experiences as a disciplined jobseeker and precarious temporary worker in today’s deregulated labour market, Ivor Southwood illuminates with sharpness and brilliance the rigid reality that lies behind the rhetoric of flexibility and individual choice. By rousing us from our ideological slumber, he seeks to highlight the opportunities for resistance and alternatives that, despite everything, present themselves to the precarious worker.