The Temporary Staffing Industry: Growth Imperatives and Limits to Contingency*

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Constructing markets for temporary labour: employment liberalization and the internationalization of the staffing industry (2005, background): “achieved reality (cf. Silber 1997; Theodore and Peck 2002 ).”
Constrained agency? Re-evaluating the geographies of labour (2011, background): “Staffing agencies place workers in all sectors of the economy, and hence can be seen as promulgators of different kinds of labour market ‘flexibility packages’ across a range of clerical, technical and blue-collar occupations (Peck and Theodore, 2002; Theodore and Peck, 2002).”
Passing the buck: Labor flexibility practices that transfer risk onto hourly workers (2008, background): “In recent years, however, temp jobs have become an institutionalized practice that allows firms to contain benefit and wage costs on a regular, rather than cyclical, basis (Gramm & Schnell, 2001; Theodore & Peck, 2002).”