The poverty of work : : selling servant, slave and temporary labor on the free market / / by David Van Arsdale.
In The Poverty of Work , Van Arsdale goes inside the world of temping and discovers a type of work dreadfully insecure yet growing rapidly. Furthermore, through a comprehensive historiography, he illustrates how employment agencies moved from England to North America during the colonial period, wher...
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| Superior document: | Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 90 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, [The Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016. ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in critical social sciences ;
Volume 90. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (227 pages) :; illustrations, tables. |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- A Perfect Marriage: Flexible Employment Standards and the Staffing Industry
- Inside Employment Agency Labor: Participant Observation Experiences
- Exchange Alley: The Origins of Employment Agencies
- From Slave Agency to Temporary Help: The Historical Development of Employment Agencies
- The Poverty of Work: Shifting from Jobs that Solved Poverty to Jobs that Make It
- Preventing the Reproduction of Deprived Employment Statuses among Temporary Laborers
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index.