 Elcioglu, Emine Fidan. 2010. “Producing Precarity: The Temporary Staffing Agency in the Labor Market.” Qualitative Sociology 33: 117-136.
Producing Precarity reveals how temp agencies don’t just place workers in jobs; they actively manufacture insecurity. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, the article shows how agencies sort workers into a valued “core” and a disposable “periphery,” capping mobility and intensifying surveillance. Precarity, I argue, is not an accident of the labor market but its business model.. |
