This book introduces the Precariat - a new class, comprising the growing number of people facing lives of insecurity, doing work without a past or future.Guy Standing argues that this class of people could produce new instabilities in society. They are increasingly frustrated and dangerous because they have no voice, and hence they are vulnerable to the siren calls of extreme political parties. He envisages a new kind of Good Society, with more people actively involved in civil society and the Precariat re-engaged. This is a topical and a radical book, which will appeal to a broad market concerned by the increasing problems of job insecurity and civic disengagement.