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Temporary Work: The Gendered Rise of a Precarious Employment Relationship (Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy) - Softcover
The first in-depth analysis of temporary work in Canada, Leah F. Vosko's important new book examines a number of important trends, including the commodification of labour power; the decline of the full-time, full-year job as a norm; and the gendered character of prevailing employment relationships. Spanning the period from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century, Temporary Work traces the evolution of the temporary employment relationship in Canada and places it in an international context. It explores how, and to what extent, 'temporary work' is becoming a norm for a diverse group of workers in the labour market, taking gender as a central lens of analysis.
Recent scholarship emphasizes that the nature of work is changing, citing the spread of non-standard forms of employment and the rise in women's participation in the labour force. Vosko confirms that important changes are indeed taking place in the labour market, but argues that these changes are best understood in historical, economic and political contexts. This book will be invaluable to academics in a variety of disciplines as well as to policy analysts and practitioners.
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Leah F. Vosko is an assistant professor of labour studies and political science at McMaster University.
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- PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 080208334X
- ISBN 13 9780802083340
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages400
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Temporary Work: The Gendered Rise of a Precarious Employment Relationship by Vosko, Leah Faith
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Some pencil notes and highlighting throughout book. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> More than perhaps any other category of workers, temporary help workershave the appearance of being listed, bought, sold, and traded in the labourmarket. Given that temporary help agencies are 'labour suppliers,' tempo-rary help workers are treated like commodities even though they freely enterinto a relationship with a temporary help agency. Thus, it is worth probinglabour power's commodity status under capitalism to locate and understandfully the situation of temporary help workers in contemporary Canadiansociety, how their status has changed over the twentieth century, and thegendered underpinnings of these changes.From Temporary Work: The Gendered Rise of a Precarious EmploymentRelationship. highly original, innovative scholarly output with strong implicationsbeyond the strictly academic community. The author is to be congratulatedon an outstanding piece of work.'Wallace Clement, Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University. a thorough exploration of the past, present. Seller Inventory # Batch-FM162-G-3975
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