Poverty of Work : Selling Servant, Slave and Temporary Labor on the Free Market

Van Arsdale, David

ISBN 10: 160846833X / ISBN 13: 9781608468331

Published by Haymarket Books, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Poverty of Work : Selling Servant, Slave and Temporary Labor on the Free Market
• Publisher: Haymarket Books
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 160846833X
• ISBN 13: 9781608468331
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

This chilling look inside the history of employment agencies in the U.S. argues that they should have been abolished with slavery, or at the very least, put under tight government control. Today, left largely unregulated, employment agencies generate astonishing revenue by selling flexible, on-demand temporary workers. In the process millions are trapped in a cycle of unemployment, despair, and poverty.

About the Author

David Van Arsdale, Ph.D. (2004), Syracuse University, is Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Onondaga Community College. His research commonly addresses issues of work and culture, economy and development, and race and ethnicity.