Temporary and Contingent Labor
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Gender inequality in science and technology fields takes various and complex shapes, from recruitment and retention across educational levels, to job entry and advancement barriers, to pay and compensation. Although the salary gap for... more
It is common to hear about academics’ personal lives in terms of a lack. We know, for instance, that academics have fewer children, marry less, and work longer hours than those in other ‘professions’ (Mason et al. 2013; NTEU 2015). The... more
Braverman's analysis of the changing division of labor is crucial for understanding the impact of the neoliberal assault on higher education on academic labor. Much like Taylorism a century ago, adjunctification of the faculty, online... more
Free movement plays a fundamental role in the institutional construction and normative expectations of EU citizenship. The emergence of the EU citizenship agenda mainly taken place along the evolution of mobility rights. However, the... more
In the current discourse of low-budget urbanity, there is a special place for projects and practices of temporary reuse. While the idea of temporary urban uses is often understood as encompassing a highly heterogeneous variety of... more
‘Herbert Marcuse and the Legacy of One Dimensional Man’, International Herbert Marcuse Society Conference, https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/rbml/files/2014/09/One-Dimensional-Man-at-Fifty-Conference-Program1.pdf
Purpose: To explore the implications for employees’ psychological contracts of a forced change from permanent to temporary employment status within an organisation. Methodology/Approach: A random sample of 30 employees, stratified by... more
In the last few years the relative size of the contingent versus permanent workforce in organisations has been on the rise. Concurrently there has been an increased focus for organisations to become more agile. Whilst the economic effect... more
"Reclaiming the Landscape: 35 things you can do to improve work conditions of contingent faculty" was part of the 2016 Presidential Panel for the Society for Classical Studies (SCS), delivered on 7 January 2016.
According to institutional data, during the 2012-2013 academic year, adjunct and other contingent faculty made up 71 percent of the total faculty at George Mason University. Like contingent faculty at other colleges and universities, much... more
This paper outlines evidences and debates about non-reguar employment in France. It assesses available empirical evidence and French literature. It is a shorter copy of a full report. See Kornig C. et Michon F (2010), « L'emploi non... more
This article explores the use of contingent forms of employment in two diverse country contexts-the UK and Sweden-and investigates the influence of changing regulatory and economic conditions over a period that covers the current economic... more
On-line education is rationalizing and fragmenting faculty labor into discreet parts and allocating it to an assembly line of adjunct faculty, corporate contractors, staff technicians, and administrators. This emerging division of... more
Based on an original survey of the UK construction industry this article examines the training disadvantages faced by contingent labour. This article addresses two key questions: first, is the provision of training different for directly... more
Foreign nurses in Nova Scotia are needed, but not always wanted. My research explores the contradictory labour experiences of nurses, and their consciousness of these experiences, drawing on original ethnographic interviews with foreign... more
The connection between international education and immigration has drawn the attention of scholars interested in exploring how immigrants strategically use international education as a means to facilitate their migration projects,... more
Special Issue, The Origins of the Welfare State: Global and Comparative Approaches Co-edited by Agnoletto, S. and Palmieri, C.... more
This article analyzes temporary migration schemes in Canada and Australia. Unlike the bulk of affluent states, both countries eschewed guestworker programs for most of the twentieth century, embracing migrants as permanent settlers and... more
Abstract: This book chapter contextualizes two iterations of art practice performed in 2014 by Shepley (i) in the ruined catholic seminary St Peters, Kilmahew, Scotland and (ii) Connaught Place, Delhi, India. The paper examines ways in... more
This article shows that professional skill level of employees is a key factor in the formation of employee responses to subcontracted forms of employment. In addition, the proportion of employees hired through temporary staffing... more
This is an updated version of a talk I first gave at U of T in the fall of 2008, regarding privatization of the university and its effects. I would also point readers to the article I wrote for Academic Matters for further information.... more
This is a case study of the use of subcontracting within BT plc the UK's largest telecommunications firm. The 1990s have witnessed significant quantitative and qualitative changes in the utilisation and management of subcontracting within... more
This is a study of the reconfiguration of bureaucracy, based on a case study of subcontracting within BT plc, the UK's largest telecommunications firm.The 1990s witnessed significant quantitative and qualitative changes in the utilization... more
The temporary employment relationship (TER) - as a non-standard, often precarious work arrangement – has been key to contemporary practices such as ‘just-in-time’ and lean production utilized by firms under neoliberal capitalism. A TER... more
In the corporate university, a capitalist enterprise, the fact of contingent academic labor should not be seen as an aberration, a scandalous (but perhaps temporary) anomaly that could be solved within and by the very system that produces... more
En este trabajo se presentan dos ejemplos de política migratoria laboral a partir de la experiencia de jornaleros agrícolas centroamericanos en la frontera sur de México y de marroquíes en Francia. Se analizan los modelos de trabajadores... more
This article examines the rise of labor dispatch-a fast-growing form of precarious work-and its regulation politics in post-socialist China. Drawing on qualitative research, the author argues that rather than generalized deregulation and... more