A distinction was made between the security and permanence of investment income and the insecurity and precariousness of income from employment.
The high mortality of children under a year old was accompanied by an unusually high early childhood mortality rate, which reflected the precariousness of living conditions.
Covering a span of over 50 years and with a large cast of characters, the diary offers constant reminders of the precariousness of late eighteenth-century existence.
This balance is probably changing, with the increasing precariousness of both public and occupational welfare in the ' post-bubble ' economy.
The final section reveals the diverse strategies by which people try to struggle against the problems of precariousness and marginality.
His lifelong predisposition, as a composer, was to represent the precariousness of any human happiness.
The period witnessed repeated cyclical depression, bankruptcies, and harvest failures which made contemporaries aware of the precariousness of survival.
The vulnerability of a system involves both precariousness and panarchy.
