Laid Off, Laid Low: Political and Economic Consequences of Employment Insecurity

Edited by Katherine S. Newman

Paper, 136 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14605-0
$15.00 / £9.00

July, 2008
Cloth, 136 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14604-3
$45.00 / £26.50

Additional Columbia/SSRC books on the privatization of risk and its consequences for everyday American life include:

Health at Risk: America's Ailing Health System-and How to Heal It

Edited by Jacob Hacker

And the forthcoming:

Pensions, Social Security, and the Privatization of Risk

Edited by Mitchell Orenstein

The Risks of Prescription Drugs

Edited by Don W. Light

Disaster and the Politics of Intervention

Edited by Andrew Lakoff

Related Subjects

• American Politics
• Business
• Economics & Finance

Series

• A Columbia / SSRC Book (Privatization of Risk)

About the Author

Katherine S. Newman is the Forbes Class of 1941 Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, the director of the Joint Doctoral Programs in Sociology, Politics, Psychology, and Social Policy, and the director of the Institute for International and Regional Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of eight books on inequality, poverty, and mobility in American society.

top of page