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Book Review: John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney, The Endless Crisis: How Monopoly-Finance Capital Produces Stagnation and Upheaval from the USA to China

are calculated on a pro rata temporis principle. While the measures taken in the 2000s have increased the proportion of the active population eligible for unemployment compensation, more than 1 million persons remain uncovered in Italy. The authors then show that the level of protection is also lower for non-standard workers regarding other dimensions of work. They do not assume that only workers under non-standard contracts are precarious. Using the WHIP database, they show that precariousness is unevenly distributed across the labour force, influenced by such factors as gender, age, sector, or size of the firm. Above all, precariousness depends on the type of contract and the length of time a worker is under a non-standard contract. The data also show that numerous non-standard workers are not precarious, but also that unemployment benefits are ineffective in lifting workers out of precariousness. This leads to the main conclusion: the burden of advanced economic societies is linked to the fact that social protection systems are required to compensate for the double lack of employment and wage security, but they are not equipped to manage this challenge because they tend to measure careers in terms of continuity. One of the authors’ recommendations is that in order to cope with precariousness states need to define an adequate set of rights for all workers and to limit excessive turnover, rather than restricting the range of options for employers and employees. This book addresses current major issues for advanced economies, where more knowledge tools exist in order to guide political decisions. In this sense, it is important that this study be followed by comparable investigations into conditions in other countries.