An inquiry into our denial of a major societal fact.

Many workers experience long-lasting job insecurity, alternating between having a job and being out of work. This study analyzes the "sustainability" of such intermittent employment. Just how bearable is it for those involved? What resources are available to help them stabilize their condition? What satisfactions might they derive from it, despite it all? To ask these questions is to step outside the binaries of "intentional" vs. "victimized" to examine how individuals adapt to a major social fact of our era, which would deprive a large swath of the working population of the rights, benefits, and security attached to stable full-time employment.