Temporary agency work and globalisation : beyond flexibility and inequality

1. Introduction : temporary agency work and globalisation / Huiyan Fu -- 2. Selling flexibility, institutionalising insecurity : the US temporary agency work industry in the 1970s / Erin Hatton -- 3. Bridges or traps? Employment precariousness, temporary agency work and the labour market status of MG Rover workers four years after plant closure / David Bailey and Alex de Ruyter -- 4. Temporary agency work in Australia, Germany and Singapore / Lars W. Mitlacher. [et al.] -- 5. The temporary agency work industry and its regulatory environment : evidence from Australia / Angela Knox -- 6. Dispatched labour in South Korea : regulatory issues and causal analysis / Byoung-Hoon Lee and Suk-Bum Hong -- 7. Fragmented work in post-bubble Japan : negotiating identity, gender, age and class in triangular employment relationships / Huiyan Fu -- 8. Labour flexibility in an already flexible market : temporary agency work in Brazil / Nadya Araujo Guimaraes and Priscila Pereira Faria Vieira -- 9. Conclusion : beyond flexibility and inequality / Huiyan Fu.