ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how members of the middle class will respond to increased job insecurity. It addresses two main questions: First, What is the relationship between class position and job insecurity in the Netherlands, and has this relationship changed in the last decade of the twentieth century? Second question is: What is the effect of job insecurity on the willingness of workers to become union members and does social class moderate this effect? The chapter treats data and measurement of the main variables and deals with the trends in job insecurity in the Netherlands. It discusses the relationship between job insecurity and union membership. The chapter also focuses on several trends with respects to job insecurity and presents the percentage of workers that were job insecure for each of indicators in the several survey years. The main conclusion has therefore to be that those expecting widespread, growing job insecurity on the Dutch labour market, are wrong.
