Temporary Agency Work and Globalisation: Beyond Flexibility and Inequality

ISBN-13: 9781472447852 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 264 str.

Huiyan Fu

Opis

Despite its geographic and industry expansion as part of the ongoing globalisation of service activity, temporary agency work (TAW) is relatively understudied. This edited collection provides a comprehensive overview of TAW, in an international context, revealing how the TAW industry is intertwined with the changing relationship between the state, corporations and labour unions at the institutional-structural level, and also the perceptions and experiences of ordinary workers in everyday practice. By combining global and local forces, macro and micro levels of analysis, and theoretical and empirical investigations, the book offers fresh insights into recurring issues of labour flexibility and inequality, making practical suggestions and facilitating fruitful cross-national collaborations.

Recenzje

’By taking temporary labour placement as a strategic lens of analysis, the contributors shed new light on the intersections between changes in the macro political economy, industrial reconfigurations and regulatory adjustments, and individual experiences and perceptions. Well written and exceptionally coherent, the volume makes important contributions to the studies of labour relations, globalization, migration and neoliberalism.’ Xiang Biao, University of Oxford, UK ’As all jobs become more temporary, this volume offers a vital, global portrait of the wellspring of this job-degrading flexibilization: the temporary help agency industry itself. This sobering volume sounds a much-needed alarm about a future work trajectory that must be avoided at all costs.’ Chris Tilly, Director, UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, USA ’It is an edited book with a good collection of research papers from eminent international scholars and authors. It contains diagrams, tables and lots of references that serve as a foundation for further research on temporary agency work. This book is useful for human resources scholars, practitioners and leaders at all levels. Enjoy reading this book!’ Professor M.S. Rao, Amazon.com review, May 2015

O autorze

Huiyan Fu holds a doctorate in social anthropology from the University of Oxford. Working at the intersection of social anthropology and international business, she has previously taught as a visiting professor at Aalen University in Germany and is currently a senior lecturer at Regent’s University London. She is the author of An Emerging Non-Regular Labour Force in Japan: The Dignity of Dispatched Workers (Routledge/Nissan Institute Japanese Studies, 2011).