LEADER 03240nam 2200601 450 001 9910465350603321 005 20170919203742.0 010 $a90-04-32351-1 024 7 $a10.1163/9789004323513 035 $a(CKB)3710000000744226 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16499882 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)15031948 035 $a(PQKB)20553881 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4750824 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789004323513 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000744226 100 $a20170904h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe poverty of work $eselling servant, slave and temporary labor on the free market /$fby David Van Arsdale 210 1$aLeiden, [The Netherlands] ;$aBoston, [Massachusetts] :$cBrill,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (227 pages) $cillustrations, tables 225 1 $aStudies in Critical Social Sciences,$x1573-4234 ;$vVolume 90 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a90-04-32337-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreliminary 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. 330 $aIn The Poverty of Work , Van Arsdale goes inside the world of temping and discovers a type of work dreadfully insecure yet growing rapidly. Furthermore, through a comprehensive historiography, he illustrates how employment agencies moved from England to North America during the colonial period, where they sold workers into many deprived employment statuses, including indentured servitude and slavery. Van Arsdale contends that had the history of employment agencies been better understood, they would have likely been abolished with slavery, or at the very least, more tightly controlled by government. Today, left largely unregulated, employment agencies are powerful corporations generating astonishing revenue by selling flexible, on-demand temporary workers. Unfortunately, this labor is trapping millions in a cycle of unemployment, despair, and poverty. 410 0$aStudies in critical social sciences ;$vVolume 90. 606 $aEmployment agencies 606 $aUnemployed 606 $aTemporary employment 606 $aPrecarious employment 606 $aSlave labor 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEmployment agencies. 615 0$aUnemployed. 615 0$aTemporary employment. 615 0$aPrecarious employment. 615 0$aSlave labor. 676 $a331.12/8 700 $aVan Arsdale$b David G.$0885838 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465350603321 996 $aThe poverty of work$91977938 997 $aUNINA