This must-read book by a stellar scholar with deep expertise on labor markets offers a profound and vivid exploration of individual experiences of work and inequalities, firm-level practices, and the role of public policy. Addressing key issues like flexibilization, AI, and workplace organization, it goes beyond standard solutions to envision good-quality work embedded in strong labor market institutions. With a comparative focus on continental Europe, it raises essential questions about the future of work, including its boundaries. -- Janine Leschke, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark A fascinating and well-documented dive into the heart of contemporary forms of work which are fluid, mobile, flexible, but also unequal, precarious, and under pressure due to the rise of technology. This book is a stimulating plea to reassert the foundations of work and non-work. It will be valuable for students, scholars, policy makers, business leaders and citizens. -- Christine Erhel, Centre for Employment and Labour Studies and Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France This timely book builds on insights from individual behavior, management, and public policy to provide an empirically grounded overview of the social and technological mechanisms that have shaped the evolution of paid work, and a realistic and balanced assessment of the possibilities of obtaining better work environments in the future. -- Arne L. Kalleberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
