Passing the Buck - Corporate Restructuring and the Casualisation of Labour (Paperback)

Passing the buck is Volume 5 No 1 of the international interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal, Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation. Casual labour is often thought of as a hangover from the bad old days, when agricultural workers were hired by the day, homeworkers slaved hidden away in back rooms and street vendors eked out a living in urban slums. Modernisation, new technology, industrialisation and economic development, it might be thought, are doing away with such primitive conditions. Unfortunately, as this volume shows, this is far from being the case. In fact the logic of financialisation and the restructuring of global value chains is leading in precisely the opposite direction, with new forms of casualisation taking place right within the heart of the 'formal' sector, and employees of global corporations experiencing growing precariousness in both developed and developing countries, driven by the pressures of competition in a global economy, This important collection brings together new theoretical insights into the dynamics of the new casualisation of employment, as well as presenting empirical evidence of its spread from Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America.

General

Imprint:	The Merlin Press Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2011
First published:	September 2011
Authors:	Ursula Huws
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	168
ISBN-13:	978-0-85036-653-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Work & labour
LSN:	0-85036-653-4
Barcode:	9780850366532

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