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Between keeping your head down and trying to get noticed: Agency workers in French car assembly plants

Purcell, Christina; Brook, Paul; Lucas, Rosemary - In: Management Revue 22 (2011) 2, pp. 169-187

Numerical flexibility is commonly promoted as a driver of employment growth. However, contingent work is frequently associated with 'bad jobs', particularly for those in low skilled occupations. Agency work is a common and growing form of contingent work and is often promoted as a tool for...

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Between Keeping Your Head Down and Trying to Get Noticed: Agency Workers in French Car Assembly Plants

Purcell, Christina; Brook, Paul; Lucas, Rosemary - In: management revue. Socio-economic Studies 22 (2011) 2, pp. 169-187

Numerical flexibility is commonly promoted as a driver of employment growth. However, contingent work is frequently associated with “bad jobs”, particularly for those in low skilled occupations. Agency work is a common and growing form of contingent work and is often promoted as a tool for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021653

Between keeping your head down and trying to get noticed : agency workers in French car assembly plants

Purcell, Christina; Brook, Paul; Lucas, Rosemary - In: Management revue : MRev 22 (2011) 2, pp. 169-187

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Factory regimes and the dismantling of established labour in Asia: a review of cases from large manufacturing plants in China, South Korea and Taiwan

Nichols, Theo; Cam, Surhan; Chou, Wen-chi Grace; Chun, … - In: Work, Employment & Society 18 (2004) 4, pp. 663-685

This article is about factory regimes and more particularly about changes in factory regimes in East Asia. Its point of … departure is Burawoyâ€™s early and highly influential contribution to the understanding of factory regimes (Burawoy, 1985 …

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