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100 1 _aVan Arsdale, David G.
245 1 4 _aThe poverty of work :
_bselling servant, slave and temporary labor on the free market /
_cby David Van Arsdale.
264 1 _aLeiden ;
_aBoston :
_bBrill,
_c[2016]
300 _a1 online resource.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aStudies in critical social sciences ;
_vv. 80
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 _aPreliminary 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.
506 _aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520 _aIn 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
650 0 _aEmployment agencies.
650 0 _aUnemployed.
650 0 _aTemporary employment.
650 0 _aPrecarious employment.
650 0 _aSlave labor.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aVan Arsdale, David G., author.
_tPoverty of work
_dLeiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
_z9789004323377
_w(DLC) 2016020963
830 0 _aStudies in Critical Social Sciences
_v90.
830 0 _aSocial Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2016, ISBN: 9789004303959.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004323513
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