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Temps - The Forgotten Workers
Cook, Christopher | January 31, 1994 issue

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According to the author, the primary agenda of the continued expansion of temporary labor in the U.S. is the dismantlement of rights have been the bedrock of social compact in the workplace since the 1930s. On a meteoric rise since the early 1970s, the temporary business has grown from a stopgap service employing about 165,000 people a day into America's favorite source of substitute and replacement labor, dispatched to offices, executive suites, hospitals and nursing homes, warehouses and factories at a rate of about 1.4 million people each day.

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TEMPORARY employment; LABOR supply; WORK environment; PRIVILEGE (Social sciences); EMPLOYEES; UNITED States
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