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„Die Flexibilität unbezahlter Zeit“ – Die strategische Nutzung von Leiharbeit / “The flexibility of unpaid time” – the strategic use of temporary agency work

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  • Holst Hajo

    (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena Institut für Soziologie Postfach D-07737 Jena)

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Over the last economic cycle, temporary agency work has increasingly developed into an instrument of strategic corporate governance. By permanently employing temporary agency workers management aims at both protecting future profits against market risks and increasing current returns. Furthermore, as a side effect of the changed deployment of temporary agency work, a new competition-oriented mode of regulation of work is established that is based on an altered role of central institutions of labour relations. Previously, sector agreements and legal dismissal protection set boundaries for the competition among workers, currently these institutions are much less embedded in employers’ practices and thus increasingly become objects of competition.

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  • Holst Hajo, 2010. "„Die Flexibilität unbezahlter Zeit“ – Die strategische Nutzung von Leiharbeit / “The flexibility of unpaid time” – the strategic use of temporary agency work," Arbeit, De Gruyter, vol. 19(2-3), pages 164-177, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:arbeit:v:19:y:2010:i:2-3:p:164-177:n:8
    DOI: 10.1515/arbeit-2010-2-308
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