Temporary Agency Workers in Italy and the UK The Comparative Experience of Labour Market Disadvantage

This book offers a comparative exploration of the various disadvantages experienced by a category of atypical workers compared to standard employees, in the UK and Italy, and considers whether and how the differences can be attributed to contrasting institutional settings and political economies. Be...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bertolini, Alessio
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2020, 2020
Edition:1st ed. 2020
Series:Work and Welfare in Europe
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This book offers a comparative exploration of the various disadvantages experienced by a category of atypical workers compared to standard employees, in the UK and Italy, and considers whether and how the differences can be attributed to contrasting institutional settings and political economies. Bertolini explores the lived experience of these workers, and demonstrates how institutional variables interact in complex ways with individual socio-demographic characteristics as well as the broader socio-economic context to shape individual disadvantages and engender different experiences of precariousness. Temporary Agency Workers in Italy and the UK will be of interest to students and scholars of political economy, sociology of work, welfare studies, labour market policy, and industrial relations
Physical Description:XIII, 243 p. 7 illus., 1 illus. in color online resource
ISBN:9783030401924