Introduction -- Part 1. Culture, emotions and the flexible self. The making of a "happy worker" : positive psychology in neoliberal organizations / Edgar Cabanas and Eva Illouz -- Boomer and Gen X managers and employees at risk : evidence from work, family, and health network study / Jack Lam, Phyllis Moen, Shi-Rong Lee and Ofeu M. Buxton -- Unemployed tech workers' ambivalent embrace of the flexible ideal / Carrie M. Lane -- Laboring heroes, security, and the political economy of intimacy in Postwar Japan / Allison Alexy -- "Relying on myself alone" : single mothers forging socially necessary selves in Neoliberal Russia / Jennifer Utrata -- Part 2. Insecurity and inequalitites. Different ways of not having it all : work, care and shifting gender arrangements in the new economy / Kathleen Gerson -- Racialized family ideals : breadwinning, domesticity, and the negotiation of insecurity / Enobong Hannah Branch -- Moving on to stay put : employee relocation in the face of employment insecurity / Elizabeth Ann Whitaker -- Between gender contracts, economic crises, and work-family reconciliation : how the bursting bubble reshaped Israeli hight-tech workers' experience of balance / Michal Frenkel -- Security-autonomy-mobility roadmaps : passports to security / Jeremy Schulz and Laura Robinson -- Intimate inequalities : love and work in the Twenty-first century / Sarah M. Corse and Jennifer M. Silva.