Analyzes EU posted work in theory and practice from the point of view of the posted worker and identifies emerging structures of access and denial to labor rights for temporary intra-EU migrant workers based on extensive qualitative data collection in Germany.

Drawing on fieldwork in Chicago, Degraded Work examines changes in two industries in which inferior job quality is assumed to be intrinsic: residential construction and food retail. Arguing that a growing service sector does not have to mean growing inequality, Marc Doussard proposes creative...