In 2010, the Afghanistan NGO Safety Office ANSOO) classified Badghis province as "moderately insecure", on the scale of "low insecurity", "deteriorating", "moderately insecure", "highly insecure", or "extremely insecure", with 356 total reported attacks by armed opposition groups in Badghis in 2010 [ 29].
From the 1980s onwards, millions of skilled industrial jobs were trashed and never replaced, creating an hourglass economy: middle-class professional jobs at the top, and low-paid, low-skill, insecure service-sector jobs at the bottom.
This huge expansion in the global labour supply, to which many of our respondents referred obliquely with references to China and other out-sourced countries, has led to 'growth-less jobs' – low-wage, low-productivity, insecure and unbenefited employment that, in our study, was epitomized for several respondents as an endless series of multiple, part-time, minimum wage work.
Ukip draws support most strongly from blue-collar workers, council house tenants, and voters on low and insecure incomes.
I've often heard people ask how anyone can afford to live in London on low paid, insecure work.
No mention of low wage, insecure jobs, of rough justice from Atos-style fitness-to-work tests.
The Child Poverty Action Group said low wages, insecure employment, welfare cuts and unemployment, together with rising food and energy prices, meant many low-income families "could not afford the basics".
This includes the prevalence of low paid, insecure jobs, a lack of affordable childcare, insufficient skills and discrimination against some groups in the labour market.
Rather than a new golden era, globalisation is associated with low wages, insecure employment, stateless corporations and striking inequalities," he said.
