We examine why employers use temporary agency and contract company workers and the implications of these practices for the wages, benefits, and working conditions of workers in low-skilled labor markets. Through intensive case studies in manufacturing (automotive supply), services (hospitals),...

Research on Work Structures -- Work Structures -- Work Structures and Their Correlates -- to Chapters 4 and 5 -- Consequences of Work Structures I -- Consequences of Work Structures II -- The Dynamics of Markets and Work Structures -- Changes in Markets and Work Structures -- Summary of Sources.

This volume presents original theory and research on precarious work in various parts of the world, identifying its social, political and economic origins, its manifestations in the USA, Europe, Asia, and the Global South, and its consequences for personal and family life