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The Strategic Use of Temporary Agency Work - Functional Change of a Non-standard Form of Employment
JournalArticle (Originalarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift)
 
ID 3955936
Author(s) Holst, Hajo; Nachtwey, Oliver; Dörre, Klaus
Author(s) at UniBasel Nachtwey, Oliver
Year 2010
Title The Strategic Use of Temporary Agency Work - Functional Change of a Non-standard Form of Employment
Journal International Journal of Action Research
Volume 6
Number 1
Pages / Article-Number 108-138
Abstract Using data from the German case, the paper examines a new form of client firms’ utilization of temporary agency work that is distinctly different from traditional forms responding to production problems. Client firms, particularly from manufacturing, increasingly use temporary agency workers as a quasi-permanent component of their workforce. Management’s primary aim is to establish a 'security net' for the short-termprofits by bypassing German statutory dismissal protection. However, since client firms’ regular employees and the temporary agency workers tend to perform the same tasks, a secondary effect of the strategic use of temporary agency work can be observed: the disciplinary effects associated with precarious work are tangibly amplified and expanded.
Publisher Budrich
ISSN/ISBN 1861-1303 ; 1861-9916
URL https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-380652
edoc-URL https://edoc.unibas.ch/62796/
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