Between keeping your head down and trying to get noticed: agency workers in French car assembly plants

Purcell, Christina, Brook, Paul and Lucas, Rosemary (2011) Between keeping your head down and trying to get noticed: agency workers in French car assembly plants. Management Revue: The International Review of Management Studies, 22 (2). pp. 169-187.

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Abstract

Numerical flexibility is commonly promoted as a driver of employment growth. However, contingent work is frequently associated with "bad jobs", particularly for those in low skilled occupations. Agency work is a common and growing form of contingent work and is often promoted as a tool for facilitating the labour market integration of young workers. In France, young agency workers make up a significant part of the labour force within car assembly plants. Studies have shown that these workers have harsher working conditions than permanent co-workers and are subject to a "despotic" factory regime. However, the triangular relationship, which frames the agency contract, may give rise to a more complex outcome in which the aspiration for stable employment mediates the coercion of labour market vulnerability.

Item Type:	Article
Article Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	agency work; factory regimes; auto sector; agency autoworkers; hegemonic despotism; unions; labour process; Burawoy
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Divisions:	Schools and Research Institutes > School of Business, Computing and Social Sciences
Research Priority Areas:	Applied Business & Technology
Depositing User:	Ineke Tijsma
Date Deposited:	11 May 2015 15:12
Last Modified:	07 Aug 2023 13:03
URI:	https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/1702

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