Temporary Agency Work And Globalisation

Author : Huiyan Fu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317046269
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Temporary Agency Work and Globalisation written by Huiyan Fu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its geographic and industry expansion as part of the ongoing globalisation of service activity, temporary agency work (TAW) is relatively understudied. TAW is characterised by a distinct triangular structure where workers are typically hired by staffing or employment agencies while being ’dispatched’ to firms that use them as a type of temporary or non-regular labour. This agency-mediated labour dispatching, as a newly institutionalised industry, has registered rapid growth rates over recent decades across vast swathes of the globe. To a great degree, TAW is part of a wider structural transformation of work and employment under neoliberalism. Arguably, controversy over the expanding non-regular workforce is at its most acute when it comes to unsavoury labour-selling practices. In this connection, TAW is an exemplary field in which to examine today’s ’flexible’ capitalism and its concomitant phenomenon, i.e. ’inequality’. Featuring holistic and interdisciplinary perspectives, this edited collection provides a comprehensive overview of TAW, in an international context. It reveals how the TAW industry is intertwined with the changing relationship between the state, corporations and labour unions at the institutional-structural level, and also the perceptions and experiences of ordinary workers in everyday practice. By combining global and local forces, macro and micro levels of analysis, and theoretical and empirical investigations, the book offers fresh insights into recurring issues of labour flexibility and inequality, contributes to practical applications and facilitates fruitful cross-national collaborations.

Author : Huiyan Fu
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781472447869
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Temporary Agency Work and Globalisation Beyond Flexibility and Inequality written by Huiyan Fu and published by Lund Humphries Publishers. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its geographic and industry expansion as part of the ongoing globalisation of service activity, temporary agency work (TAW) is relatively understudied. This edited collection provides a comprehensive overview of TAW, in an international context, revealing how the TAW industry is intertwined with the changing relationship between the state, corporations and labour unions at the institutional-structural level, and also the perceptions and experiences of ordinary workers in everyday practice. By combining global and local forces, macro and micro levels of analysis, and theoretical and empirical investigations, the book offers fresh insights into recurring issues of labour flexibility and inequality, making practical suggestions and facilitating fruitful cross-national collaborations.

Author : John Burgess
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415316941
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Perspectives on Temporary Agency Work written by John Burgess and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The number of workers employed on a temporary basis has grown hugely over the past few decades. This new book provides the first serious analysis of temporary work and its effect on the economy as well as its ramifications for workers. Both editors from University of Newcastle, NSW.

Author : Dr Fred C. A. van Haasteren
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
ISBN 13 : 9041192719
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decent Flexibility written by Dr Fred C. A. van Haasteren and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2017-07-30 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the context of social law, temporary agency work has always been subject of debate. The pursuit of more flexible forms of labour is at odds with maintaining decent labour relations. For that reason, ever since it was established, the UN organisation for labour issues, ILO, has focused on private work placement. In its early years it tended to prohibit or severely restrict private work placement, but gradually it came to acknowledge that, for instance, temporary agency work had positive aspects, and that a total ban was pointless. In 1997, this culminated in ILO convention 181, which was widely supported. This did not end the debate on non-standards forms of paid work. Which forms of work can be considered decent? How do they relate to human rights? What are the effects of globalisation? In the European context, too, (cross-border) temporary agency work has attracted extensive attention. Lastly, the Netherlands has its own, unique form of public-private regulation. The guiding principle in this book is whether Convention 181 still has value in this day and age. What are the developments in temporary agency work in the social domain? How do they relate to the wide range of flexible work forms that are increasingly catching up with temporary agency work? Decent flexibility is the challenge. Dr Fred van Haasteren (1949) started his career as a scientific associate at the Society and Enterprise Foundation (SMO). From 1978 onward, he worked in the Dutch temporary agency sector. In 1982 he became a board member of Randstad Nederland; in 1991 he became Vice-President of Randstad Holding. Among other things, he was also President of the platform of European temporary agency employers and of the global temporary agency employer umbrella organisation CIETT. He is still a board member of the Dutch Labour Standards Foundation (SNA) and an independent member of the NCP OECD. The social policy pursued by temporary employment agencies has always been at the centre of his activities.

Author : Fred C. A. Van Haasteren
Publisher : Studies in Employment and Soci
ISBN 13 : 9789041192363
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decent Flexibility written by Fred C. A. Van Haasteren and published by Studies in Employment and Soci. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies in Employment and Social Policy Series Volume 49 Decent Flexibility: The Impact of ILO Convention 181 and the Regulation on Temporary Agency Work aims to create awareness that flexibility in the labour market is allowed if decently regulated. Within the context of social law, temporary agency work has always been a subject of debate. The pursuit of more flexible forms of labour is at odds with maintaining decent labour relations. For that reason, ever since it was established, the UN organization for labour issues, International Labour Organization (ILO), has focused on private work placement. In its early years, it tended to prohibit or severely restrict private work placement, but gradually it came to acknowledge that, for instance, temporary agency work had positive aspects, and that a total ban was pointless. In 1997, this culminated in ILO convention 181, which was widely supported. This book, which was defended successfully at Leiden University as a doctoral Ph.D. thesis, reviews the impact of the convention during the past two decades and explores whether Convention 181 still has value. What is in this book? This book debates on non-standard forms of paid work and extends its scope in other directions, posing several highly relevant questions relating to the future of the labour market and its regulation: Which forms of work can be considered decent? How do they relate to human rights? What are the effects of globalisation? What are the developments in temporary agency work in the social domain? How do these developments relate to the wide range of flexible work forms that are increasingly catching up with temporary agency work? What are the challenges posed by decent flexibility? This book also discusses temporary agency work in the European Union. Due to its own, unique form of public-private regulation, Dutch regulation on agency work has been chosen as a good example of implementing ILO convention 181. How this will help you The fact that Convention 181 features among the most ratified ILO conventions that have been effected since 1990 makes clear that it is increasingly gaining attention. In the light of these ongoing global changes, this book gives a good view of the development of the regulation on agency work and creates an understanding of why agency work is controversial and what could be done to regulate agency work decently. Thus, this book serves as a resource for labour lawyers and other legal professionals, economists, sociologists, and business experts, to further the development on policy-making on decent work in connection with flexible labour and its regulation, both internationally and nationally.

Author : Nicola Countouris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789221312536
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report on Temporary Employment Agencies and Temporary Agency Work written by Nicola Countouris and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report was produced by a group of independent experts, all of them labour lawyers and most of them academic labour lawyers, with a view of assisting the International Labour Office in the context of the ongoing technical assistance programme developed with the Greek Government in a number of areas, including “labour legislation to regulate collective dismissals”. As is widely known, since May 2010, the Union's Euro-area Member States and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have been providing financial support to Greece through an Economic Adjustment Programme in the context of a sharp deterioration in the country's financing conditions. This support has been accompanied by a request on the part of the lending institutions' representatives to implement a number of reforms aimed at improving the competitiveness of the Greek economy. Amongst a series of detailed specifications, Greece has been asked to adopt “reforms [that] will ease interpretation of and foster compliance with labour laws with a view to bring legislation in line with EU best prac-tices, and to this end a review will be carried out [...], comparing Greek regulations on temporary employment, scope of temporary employment agencies [...] with those in other EU Member States”.

Author : John Burgess
Publisher : Chandos Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Globalisation and Work in Asia written by John Burgess and published by Chandos Publishing. This book was released on 2007-02-28 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews employment conditions in Asian countries. This book addresses the issue of whether globalisation, taken to mean the growing international integration of economies, is a factor that leads to a convergence of employment conditions, and importantly, an improvement in employment conditions.

Author : György Széll
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Labour, Globalisation & the New Economy written by György Széll and published by Peter Lang Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dominant form of globalisation, i.e. financial globalisation, is the biggest challenge for employees and their representations of interest. If it remains largely unregulated, not only the natural resources will be destroyed, but also social sustainability will be prevented. The negative effects of this development are first of all to be felt on the local and regional level. It is here, therefore, where counter initiatives and strategies have to start. The quality of life and working-life has not necessarily increased through globalisation and the New Economy, though the possibilities of improved communication via email and Internet were positively acknowledged. The biggest challenge is the increasing inequality on a global scale, which is produced so far by the New Economy. As education contributes to enlarge this gap, it has to be adapted to the new social needs to overcome this polarisation. The ongoing development must be reversed: Real needs demand more spending for public than for private consumption. Intermediate organisations can play a positive role in this process."

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Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1845449169
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Temporary work and human resources management written by and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ebook examines a range of issue, challenges and responses relating to temporary workers and human resource management. Although the issues and challenges are significant - including regulatory compliance and safety management - there is a shortage of literature examining temporary work and HRM. Although an OECD (2002) report suggested that there was a growing share of temporary employment in many countries worldwide this special issues drew research mainly from the UK and Australia. The Guest Editor suggest that therefore considerable gaps exist in the international arena.

Author : Kathrin Mössler
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638187926
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pros and Cons of International Staffing Policies written by Kathrin Mössler and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2003-04-27 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Leadership and Human Resources - Miscellaneous, grade: very good, Vienna University of Economics and Business (Institute for Economics and Management), language: English, abstract: Introduction There has been a rapid pace of internationalization and globalization over the last decade. Expanding business operations beyond national boundaries while continuing commitment to local markets requires more complex business structures. One of the most critical determinants of an organization′s success in global ventures is the effective management of its human resources. The purpose of this paper is to summarize the advantages and disadvantages of the different international staffing approaches with special focus on the positive impacts as well as on the challenges of expatriation.