Temporary Work: The Gendered Rise of a Precarious Employment Relationship Capital & Class, Autumn 2001 by Schenk, Chris
Temporary Work: The Gendered Rise of a Precarious Employment Relationship Capital & Class, Autumn 2001 by Schenk, Chris
review of Leah Vosko Temporary Work: The Gendered Rise of a Precarious Employment Relationship University of Toronto Press, 2000.
"First, that standard employment-the former, masculine norm of full-time, permanent jobs-is giving way to non-standard employment, including temporary, part-time, contract or casual work. Such work is characterised, says the author, by the absence of stability and security, and is most often associated with what was formerly considered `women's work'hence, the term `feminized employment relationship'."
The author's second point is that: `More than perhaps any other category of workers, temporary help workers have the appearance of being listed, bought, sold, and traded in the labour market' like commodities. In its founding charter, the International Labour Organisation stated that labour is not a commodity, but that is not true, according to Vosko. Not only is labour a commodity under capitalism, but a `decline of security and freedom in the wage relation', as experienced by temporary help workers `accentuates its commodity status'.
review of Leah Vosko Temporary Work: The Gendered Rise of a Precarious Employment Relationship University of Toronto Press, 2000.
"First, that standard employment-the former, masculine norm of full-time, permanent jobs-is giving way to non-standard employment, including temporary, part-time, contract or casual work. Such work is characterised, says the author, by the absence of stability and security, and is most often associated with what was formerly considered `women's work'hence, the term `feminized employment relationship'."
The author's second point is that: `More than perhaps any other category of workers, temporary help workers have the appearance of being listed, bought, sold, and traded in the labour market' like commodities. In its founding charter, the International Labour Organisation stated that labour is not a commodity, but that is not true, according to Vosko. Not only is labour a commodity under capitalism, but a `decline of security and freedom in the wage relation', as experienced by temporary help workers `accentuates its commodity status'.
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