Description: Acknowledgments Preface: No Longer Secure Introduction: Destandardized Lives Part I: A Genealogy of the Secure Individual 1. Docile Bodies and Constant Minds 2. Disciplinary Police and Liberal "Governing Better" 3. The Interweaving of Social Insurance and Social Protection 4. The Secure Individual Part II: "The New Realities": Economic and Social Impermanence 5. The Death of Company Loyalty and the Birth of Corporate Support 6. Functional Flexibility and Job Compression 7. Flexibility on the Margins and the Destandardization of Work 8. Intimacy, Independence, and Insecurity Part III: The Struggle for Employability and the Fear of Inadequacy 9. The Planning Office as Opportunity and as Self-Expression 10. Work as Chapter and as Episode 11. The New Insecurity 12. The Prospects of the Secure Individual Appendix: Three Proposals for Income Assistance Notes Bibliography Index

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