Temporary Work, Agencies and Unfree Labour

Insecurity in the New World of Work
Herausgeber: Fudge, Judy; Strauss, Kendra

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Produktbeschreibung

Unfree labor has not disappeared from advanced capitalist economies. It is in the context of this rapidly changing landscape that this book consolidates and expands on research designed to understand new institutions for work in the global era. This edited collection provides a theoretical and empirical exploration of the links between unfree labor, intermediation, and modes of regulation, with particular focus on the evolving institutional forms and political-economic contexts that have been implicated in, and shaped by, the ascendency of temp agencies. What is distinctive about this collection is this bi-focal lens: it makes a substantial theoretical contribution by linking disparate literatures on, and debates about, the co-evolution of contingent work and unfree labor, new forms of labor intermediation, and different regulatory approaches; but it further lays the foundation for this theory in a series of empirically rich and geographically diverse case studies. This integrative approach is grounded in a cross-national comparative framework, using this approach as the basis for assessing how, and to what extent, temporary agency work can be considered unfree wage labor.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780415536509
• ISBN-10: 0415536502
• Artikelnr.: 37040775

Autorenporträt

Kendra Strauss is a University Lecturer in Human Geography and Fellow of Robinson College, University of Cambridge. She is an feminist economic geographer with interests in labor market change, feminist political economy, and geographies of risk and welfare. Judy Fudge is the Lansdowne Chair in Law at the University of Victoria, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Temporary Work, Agencies and Unfree Labour: Insecurity in the New World
of Work Kendra Strauss and Judy Fudge 2. Selling Flexibility: Temporary
Staffing in a Volatile Economy Nik Theodore and Jamie Peck 3. Power
Politics and Precariousness: The Regulation of Temporary Agency Work in the
European Union Michael Wynn 4. Placing Filipino Caregivers in Canadian
Homes: Regulating Transnational Employment Agencies in British Columbia
Judy Fudge and Daniel Parrott 5. The Creation of Distinctive National
Temporary Staffing Markets Neil M. Coe and Kevin Ward 6. The Persistence of
Unfree Labour: The Rise of Temporary Employment Agencies in South Africa
and Namibia Paul Benjamin 7. Temporary Work in China: Precarity in an
Emerging Labour Market Feng Xu 8. Unfree Labour and the Regulation of
Temporary Agency Work in the UK Kendra Strauss 9. Leased Labour and the
Erosion of Workers' Protection: The Boundaries of the Regulation of
Temporary Employment Agencies in Québec Stéphanie Bernstein and Guylaine
Vallée