casualisation
The Rise of the Six-Month Worker
Chris Carlsson analyses the worldwide growth of temporary agency work in this article for Processed World magazine in 1981.
In my experience as a temporary worker in downtown San Francisco, I have met many young people working in offices who have no pretensions about the importance of what they do. They seldom have any attachment to their work, though most are usually careful to do it right, and they don't expect to keep the job longer than from a few months to a couple of years.
Temp work at a shopping mall construction site, 2007
Prol-Position on casualisation and agency work on a German building site in 2007.
The Company
Temp work at Gate Gourmet Germany, 2007
Prol-Position on agency work at catering firm Gate Gourmet in Germany in 2007, following the strike of 2005-6.
The Company
Temp work at Flextronics, Paderborn, 2007
Prol-Position on casualisation and agency working at a large German electronics manufacturer.
The company
Temp work at Nokia Bochum, 2007
Prol-Position on casualisation, work and agency staff at the Bochum Nokia plant in Germany, 2007.
The company
Temp work at General Motors Opel Bochum, 2007
Prol-Position on casualisation and agency working at General Motors in Germany in 2007.
The Company
Temp work and minimum income in Germany, 2007
Prol-Position on the extent of casualisation and the legal and contractual status of agency and temporary workers in Germany in 2007.
Temp work expands on a small scale
Misery is relative - Reports from temp workers in Germany, 2007
A series of reports and accounts on casualisation and temporary work in Germany in 2007 by Prol-Position.
Wired - temp-work in the rail-industry, Germany, 2006
Prol-Position examine working life and the use of agency staff in railway infrastructure corporation Vossloh.
The corporation Vossloh: From Prussian war profiteer to multinational investor of the rail-industry
Notes from the class struggle: small group workplace organising
This pamphlet aims to show what small groups and unions can achieve in workplace disputes. These examples and analyses of successful small-scale actions should prove instructive to workers in a variety of fields from a variety of backgrounds, whether they are in the transport or manufacturing sector, students or illegal immigrants, or are employed in another branch of industry. The articles collected here show that through creativity, organization and fighting spirit small groups of workers and activists are more than able to hold their own against the bosses. With examples from Amsterdam, Berlin, Bremen, Hannover u.a.
We do not agree with all the comments on unions in the text, but the accounts of the events are very instructive and useful.
