Flexible recession: the temporary staffing industry and mediated work in the United States.

By Jamie Peck, N. Theodore. 2006

133 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, General Health Professions, Political Science and International Relations

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In Demography

1. A. Cobb
2. Isabel Fernandez-Mateo
3. N. Theodore
4. Jamie Peck
5. A. Crane
6. Matthew Bidwell
7. Forrest Briscoe
8. Adina D. Sterling

In General Health Professions

1. A. Cobb
2. Jamie Peck
3. N. Theodore
4. Isabel Fernandez-Mateo
5. G. LeBaron
6. A. Crane
7. Matthew Bidwell
8. Forrest Briscoe

In Political Science and International Relations

1. Jamie Peck
2. A. Cobb
3. N. Theodore
4. G. LeBaron
5. A. Crane
6. Simon Springer
7. I. R. Cook

Citations in the corpus

• Carceral Chicago: Making the Ex‐offender Employability Crisis (2008, background): “As the economic boom gave way to recession and then a long, jobless recovery, direct hiring slowed (see Peck and Theodore, 2007); informal, street corner hiring sites (labor corners) have witnessed a reduction in drive-by recruiting, many of the day-labor temp services have closed their…”
• Governance gaps in eradicating forced labor: from global to domestic supply chains (2019, background): “…input-outputmodel of GVCs (for an exception, see Barrientos 2013), the role and importance of labor market intermediaries within the domestic economies of developed countries has been well documented by scholars of employment law (Peck & Theodore 2007; Autor 2009; Fudge & Strauss 2013; Weil 2014).”
• How Firms Shape Income Inequality: Stakeholder Power, Executive Decision Making, and the Structuring of Employment Relationships (2015, background): “Not surprisingly, researchers have begun to explore the causes and consequences of these work arrangements for employers and workers (Cappelli & Keller, 2013b; Dube & Kaplan, 2010; Peck & Theodore, 2007).”
• Classifying Work in the New Economy (2013, background): “The use of alternative arrangements, especially temporary agency work, increases sharply when economies are recovering from economic downturns and tends to remain high when growth returns (Luo, Mann, & Holden, 2010; Peck & Theodore, 2007).”
• The Employment Relationship and Inequality: How and Why Changes in Employment Practices are Reshaping Rewards in Organizations (2013, background): “Much of the initial research examined whether contingent work represented “bad jobs” that provided lower pay and fewer benefits than regular work (Kalleberg et al., 2000) and focused on the problems faced by temporary agency workers (Peck & Theodore, 2007).”