When Ellen was fourteen, her cousin, Paul, angered a Malignant One, and he turned to Ellen for help. And then, when things had started to get out of hand, when

Despite its geographic and industry expansion as part of the ongoing globalisation of service activity, temporary agency work (TAW) is relatively understudied.

The number of workers employed on a temporary basis has grown hugely over the past few decades. This new book provides the first serious analysis of temporary w

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groundwork for a new corporate ethos of ruthless cost cutting and mass layoffs. --