Contingent Chicago: Restructuring the Spaces of Temporary Labor

By Jamie Peck, N. Theodore. 2001

199 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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In General Health Professions

1. A. Veen
2. T. Barratt
3. Caleb Goods
4. Jamie Peck
5. N. Theodore
6. H. Bauder
7. A. Scott
8. Emmanuel Josserand

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Jamie Peck
2. A. Veen
3. T. Barratt
4. Caleb Goods
5. N. Theodore
6. A. Scott
7. H. Bauder
8. Emmanuel Josserand

Citations in the corpus

• Labor Movement: How Migration Regulates Labor Markets (2006, background): “This role is particularly apparent in temporary labor agencies (Peck and Theodore 2001).”
• Carceral Chicago: Making the Ex‐offender Employability Crisis (2008, background): “…among African–American men — is well established (Kirschenman and Neckerman, 1991; Neckerman and Kirschenman, 1991; Wilson, 1996; Holzer and Stoll, 2001; Peck and Theodore, 2001), as is the more general finding that hiring decisions are powerfully shaped by race and by the presence of a criminal…”
• ‘I’m my own boss…’: Active intermediation and ‘entrepreneurial’ worker agency in the Australian gig-economy (2020, background): “The nature of the product market makes the work ‘stubbornly local’ (Coe et al., 2007: 506) and subject to hyper-local availability of workers (Peck and Theodore, 2001) as the quality of the product degrades as soon as it is produced (i.e. hot food gets cold, cold food gets warm).”
• Emerging cities of the third wave (2011, background): “…is also undergoing major transformation as the old blue-collar working class dwindles in size and is replaced by a sort of proletariat in low-wage serviceoriented occupations, or what I alluded to earlier as a new servile class (cf. Drayse, 2004; Hondagneu-Sotelo, 2002; Peck and Theodore, 2001).”
• The Temporary Staffing Industry: Growth Imperatives and Limits to Contingency* (2002, background): “Needless to say, this was not, nor has it since been, merely a passive process of labor market intermediation; instead, agencies have been actively engaged in exposing, making, and expanding the market for temporary labor (see Gannon 1978; Parker 1994; Peck and Theodore 1998, 2001; Ofstead 2000).”