>X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 22:47:10 -0400 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Bob Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Book Launch Oct 21 - "Temporary Work" by Leah Vosko >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Status: > > > > >Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 17:32:46 -0400 >From: Toronto Women's Bookstore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Book Launch October 21 - "Temporary Work" by Leah Vosko > >The Toronto Women's Bookstore >invite you to an evening panel discussion in honour of the launch of: > >"Temporary Work: the Gendered Rise of a Precarious Employment Relationship" >by Leah F. Vosko > >on Saturday, October 21st, 2000 at 5:00pm >at the Toronto Women's Bookstore, 73 Harbord St (at Spadina) > >Joining Leah in discussion will be: Winnie Ng, Deena Ladd and Barbara Cameron > >Co-Sponsored by the University of Toronto Press. > >For more information please call 922-8744 > >More than perhaps any other category of workers, temporary help workers >have the appearance of being listed, bought, sold, and traded in the labour >market. Given that temporary help agencies are 'labour suppliers', >temporary help workers are treated like commodities even though they freely >enter into a relationship with a temporary help agency. Thus, it is worth >probing labour power's commodity status under capitalism to locate and >understand fully the situation of temporary help workers in contemporary >Canadian society, how their status has changed over the twentieth century, >and the gendered underpinnings of these changes. > > >************************************************************** >Toronto Women's Bookstore >73 Harbord Street,Toronto, ON M5S 1G4 >ph: 416-922-8744 / toll-free: 800-861-8233/ fax: 416-922-1417 >mon-wed: 10:30-6pm/thurs-fri: 10:30-8pm/ sat: 10:30-6pm/ sun: 12-5 >"If a book doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for?" > - Alice Walker >************************************************************** > > > > > > ............................................. > Bob Olsen, Toronto [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ............................................. >
