Gail Stewart wrote:
> 
> A question that came to mind:
> 
> If temp agencies had a different name - something like
> flexwork agencies for instance - might we understand them
> differently?
> 
> Might we see them as facilitating self-directed
> self-employment and thus a welcome wave of the future,
> allowing people to enter the paid labour market only as
> needed and to organize their lives around active leisure
> rather than around paid work?
[snip]

What if they were called labor-pimps?

Self-directed self-employment doesn't generally
need a procurer.

So we have at least 3 different ways to look at Temp
agencies, and no doubt there are individuals who
experience each of the three flavors.

+\brad mccormick

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