03207nam 2200589 450 991079857040332120230808194033.090-04-32351-110.1163/9789004323513(CKB)3710000000744226(PQKBManifestationID)16499882(PQKBWorkID)15031948(PQKB)20553881(MiAaPQ)EBC4750824(nllekb)BRILL9789004323513(EXLCZ)99371000000074422620170904h20162016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrThe poverty of work selling servant, slave and temporary labor on the free market /by David Van ArsdaleLeiden, [The Netherlands] ;Boston, [Massachusetts] :Brill,2016.©20161 online resource (227 pages) illustrations, tablesStudies in Critical Social Sciences,1573-4234 ;Volume 90Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph90-04-32337-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Preliminary 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.In 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.Studies in critical social sciences ;Volume 90.Employment agenciesUnemployedTemporary employmentPrecarious employmentSlave laborEmployment agencies.Unemployed.Temporary employment.Precarious employment.Slave labor.331.12/8Van Arsdale David G.1575124MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910798570403321The poverty of work3851850UNINA