This article considers the international trends to more flexible labour relations in terms of the erosion of seven forms of labour related personal security and the evolving forms of labour market regulation. It suggests that growing labour market flexibility has been accompanied by a...

1. Work and labour in great transformations -- 2. Fictitious decommodification : the failure of industrial citizenship -- 3. Labour recommodification in the global transformation -- 4. Inequality, class and the 'precariat' -- 5. Crumbling barriers to decommodification -- 6. Occupational...