期刊名称:Just Labour : A Canadian Journal of Work and Society
电子版ISSN:1705-1436
出版年度:2007
卷号:10
出版社:York University
摘要:In Britain, Conservative governments from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s sought to improve the competitiveness of the economy through labour market deregulation, enacting legislation to reduce employment protection and remove workers' rights, at the same time as taking measures to weaken trade union organisation. This paved the way for the growth of non-standard forms of work. The rise in part-time, temporary and agency work, along with labour subcontracting, explains how employers have been able to hire workers to do similar work on differentiated pay rates, working hours and conditions (Allen and Henry 1997; Benyon et al 2002; Nolan 2004; Smith and Morton 2006).