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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Some pencil notes and highlighting throughout book. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> More than perhaps any other category of workers temporary help workershave the appearance of being listed bought sold and traded in the labourmarket. Given that temporary help agencies are ‘labour suppliers’ tempo-rary help workers are treated like commodities even though they freely enterinto a relationship with a temporary help agency. Thus it is worth probinglabour power’s commodity status under capitalism to locate and understandfully the situation of temporary help workers in contemporary Canadiansociety how their status has changed over the twentieth century and thegendered underpinnings of these changes.From Temporary Work: The Gendered Rise of a Precarious EmploymentRelationship… highly original innovative scholarly output with strong implicationsbeyond the strictly academic community. The author is to be congratulatedon an outstanding piece of work.’Wallace Clement Institute of Political Economy Carleton University… a thorough exploration of the past present and future of the TemporaryEmployment Relationship (TER) and the Temporary Help Industry (THI)… itaddresses an issue of great importance to many social science audiencesPeggy Kahn Department of Political Science University of Michigan-Flint