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Temporary Work: The Gendered Rise of a Precarious Employment Relationship.

Publication: Industrial Relations (Canadian)
Publication Date: 22-SEP-03 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Temporary Work: The Gendered Rise of a Precarious Employment Relationship.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
Temporary Work: The Gendered Rise of a Precarious Employment Relationship by Leah F. VOSKO, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000, 380 pp., ISBN 0-8020-4792-0.

Temporary Work by Leah Vosko analyzes the history and recent growth of temporary work in Canada. It examines the relationship between varied forms of temporary work and the erosion of terms of employment for the standard employment relationship (SER). Furthermore, the author uses archetypes of feminized employment (more casual, lower pay) to characterize this trend.

Professor Vosko examines two dimensions of temporary work: (1) it is brokered (by a recruiter or staffing service); and (2) it is precarious in several ways--it may be unstable, it places workers in a weak bargaining position, and it severs workers from mechanisms of social protection.

The book begins with a review of how Canada and other industrialized countries experienced shifts in social and political norms governing the employment relationship during the 20th century. If the SER represents a successful move away from the commodity status of labour power during the post-WWII period, the recent growth of Temporary Employment...

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