Temporary Employment and Social Inequality in Canada: Exploring Intersections of Gender, Race and Immigration Status
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- Date
2008
- Authors
Leah F Vosko and Sylvia Fuller
- Abstract
Using data from the 2002–2004 waves of Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics, this article investigates the consequences of different types of temporary employment—fixed-term or contract, casual, agency and seasonal employment—for differently situated workers in Canada. Attention to intersecting social locations of gender, race and immigrant status helps capture the complex implications of temporary work for inequality. In particular, it highlights the salience of gender relations in shaping workers’ experience of insecurity in different types of temporary employment.
- Journal title
Social Indicators Research
- Volume
88
- Issue
1
- Page numbers
20
- Links
- Economic sectors
Agriculture and horticulture workers, Occupations in services - Domestic work, Other, and General relevance - all sectors
- Content types
Policy analysis, Statistics on work and life conditions, and Numbers of migrant workers
- Target groups
Researchers
- Geographical focuses
National relevance
- Spheres of activity
Sociology and Demography