Working Without Commitments: The Health Effects of Precarious Employment

by Wayne Lewchuk, Marlea Clarke, and Alice de Wolff

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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 of the traditional family model. A timely and relevant work for uncertain economic times, Working Without Commitments provides helpful information for understanding the present workplace and securing better futures for today's workforce.
  • ISBN10 0773538275
  • ISBN13 9780773538276
  • Publish Date 17 January 2011
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 28 January 2013
  • Publish Country CA
  • Imprint McGill-Queen's University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 344
  • Language English