Precarious Work: How Temporary Jobs and Subcontracting Undermine Women, Migrants, and All Workers’ Rights to Decent Work Worldwide

International Labor Rights Forum

Precarious Work: How Temporary Jobs and Subcontracting Undermine Women, Migrants, and All Workers’ Rights to Decent Work Worldwide

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ILRF_PrecariousWork_2009.pdf (84.48 KB)

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https://hdl.handle.net/1813/100981

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Globalization and the Workplace

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International Labor Rights Forum

Abstract

This document provides a number of case studies of US corporations’ use of precarious and contract labor to weaken unions and cut costs. Also describes the effects of these practices on the working conditions and labor rights of women and migrants.