Temporary Agency Workers in Italy and the UK

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.

Compares the disadvantages experienced by one specific category of atypical workers, namely temporary agency (TA) workers, one of the most rapidly increasing types of atypical employment in the past two decades Considers two countries which have been regarded as very different in terms of employment-related institutional divides Draws heavily upon original primary data collected through 50 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with full-time TA workers and other relevant stakeholders in comparable British and Italian cities

Auteur

Alessio Bertolini is Research Associate in the School of Law at the University of Glasgow, UK.

Contenu

1. Introduction.- 2. Analysing Atypical Workers' Disadvantages in a Comparative Perspective.- 3. Temporary Agency Work and Employment Precariousness.- 4. Temporary Agency Work and Work Precariousness.- 5. Temporary Agency Work and Income Precariousness.- 6. Conclusions. <p