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The poverty of work : selling servant, slave and temporary labor on the free market / by David Van Arsdale.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Van Arsdale, David G., author.
- Series:
- Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 90.
- Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 1573-4234 ; Volume 90
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Employment agencies.
- Unemployed.
- Temporary employment.
- Precarious employment.
- Slave labor.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (227 pages) : illustrations, tables.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, [The Netherlands] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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, where they sold workers into many deprived employment statuses, including indentured servitude and slavery. Van Arsdale contends that had the history of employment agencies been better understood, they would have likely been abolished with slavery, or at the very least, more tightly controlled by government. Today, left largely unregulated, employment agencies are powerful corporations generating astonishing revenue by selling flexible, on-demand temporary workers. Unfortunately, this labor is trapping millions in a cycle of unemployment, despair, and poverty.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-32351-1
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004323513 DOI
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