Using longitudinal data on labour law in France, Germany, Japan, Sweden, the UK and the USA for the four decades after …

Numerical flexibility is commonly promoted as a driver of employment growth. However, contingent work is frequently … associated with “bad jobs”, particularly for those in low skilled occupations. Agency work is a common and growing form of … contingent work and is often promoted as a tool for facilitating the labour market integration of young workers. In France, young …

. Interim workers hired by temporary work agencies to provide work services within end user businesses have seen an increase in … their ranks over the past twenty years. However, if French and Quebec interim workers work within totally different legal … systems, they nevertheless have one trait in common: these workers are not significantly unionized within the temporary work …

and contribute to changes in work groups and productivity practices. If solidarity in the workplace stems from a common …’s future can be instilled. The segmentation of work groups via the status of different workers brings about major, rapid … transformations in social relations at work by profoundly affecting the intergenerational dynamics of autonomous regulatory systems …