| Description |
1 online resource (i, 213 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Studies in critical social sciences ; volume 90
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Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 90.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The Poverty of Work: Selling Servant, Slave and Temporary Labor on the Free Market; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Figures and Tables; 1: A Perfect Marriage: Flexible Employment Standards and the Staffing Industry; Flexible Fields, Flexible Factories; The Globalization of Flexible Employment Standards; Non-corporate Employment Agencies; Corporate Employment Agencies; Aim of the Book; Organization and Methodology; 2: Inside Employment Agency Labor: Participant Observation Experiences; Anatomy of a Corporate Employment Agency. |
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Getting Hired, Demographics, Health RisksWaiting Rooms, Dispatch Anxiety, Low-Wages; The Dawn of Virtual Waiting Rooms; Dispatch from a Corporate Employment Agency; Waiting for Work; On a Ticket; The Revolving Door; "Why Don't You Get a Job Someplace Else?"; "Catch 22": Trapped in Temping; The Paradox of Flexible Labor; The Growth of Unregulated Hiring; Dispatch from a Non-corporate Employment Agency; Temping at the Food Factory; Temping at the Plastics Factory; 3: Exchange Alley: The Origins of Employment Agencies; A Labor of Investment Capitalism. |
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Early Contradictions in At-Will Employment Relations: Registering Servants and MastersThe Privatization of Employment Agencies; Case Study: The Intelligence Office for Seamen; Growth and Competition among Intelligence Offices in London; Public Criticism of Employment Agencies in London; Adam Smith on Intelligence Offices; 4: From Slave Agency to Temporary Help: The Historical Development of Employment Agencies; The Labor Trade West of London; Marketing Racial and Ethnic Employment Statuses and the Limitation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Theory on the Labor Trade. |
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The Rise of Benevolent Intelligence OfficesThe Anti-slavery Intelligence Office; The Emigrant Depot Intelligence Office; Selling Bridget; Trafficking Women into Brothels; From Intelligence Office to Employment Agency; The Discontents of Employment Agency Labor; From Employment Agency to Temporary Help; Misrepresenting Intelligence Offices in North American Literary Rhetoric; 5: The Poverty of Work: Shifting from Jobs that Solved Poverty to Jobs that Make It; Returning to the Contemporary Labor Trade; The Changing Nature and Provisions of Work. |
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The Production of the Idea of Work as Solution to PovertyThe Production of Poverty in Work; Selling the Unemployed as Leverage for Capital Gains; 6: Preventing the Reproduction of Deprived Employment Statuses among Temporary Laborers; The Pitfalls of Unregulated Triangular Employment Exchanges: Revising Stowe's Thesis on the Labor Trade; Solutions for Preventing Deprived Employment; Legislative Solutions; Community and Organized Labor Actions; Appendix; International Staffing Companies, Economic Overview; U.S. Staffing Companies, Economic Overview; Bibliography; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Employment agencies.
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Employment agencies. |
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Unemployed.
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Unemployed. |
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Temporary employment.
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Temporary employment. |
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Precarious employment.
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Precarious employment. |
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Slave labor.
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Slave labor. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Van Arsdale, David G. Poverty of work. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016] 9789004323377 (DLC) 2016020963 |
| ISBN |
9789004323513 (electronic book) |
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9004323511 (electronic book) |
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9789004323377 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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