Working Without Commitments: The Health Effects of Precarious Employment

by Alice De Wolff, Marlea Clarke, Wayne Lewchuk, et al.

Working Without Commitments offers a new understanding of the social and health impacts of this change in the modern workplace, where outsourcing, limited term contracts, and the elimination of pensions and health benefits have become the new standard. Using information from interviews and surveys with workers in less permanent employment, the authors show how precarious employment affects the health of workers, labour productivity, and the sustainability...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773538283
• ISBN13: 9780773538283
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 335 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.8"