Precarious Work: How temporary jobs and subcontracting undermines women, migrants and workers’ rights to decent work

Date of publication: July 7, 2009

Author: ILRF

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• Precarious Work Worldwide women, migrants, etc..pdf [1]

Employers around the world are creating precarious forms of work to destroy unions, cut labor costs and avoid being held responsible for their own employees. Precarious work is created when permanent, regular jobs are replaced by subcontracted labor and temporary, short-term jobs. Workers around the world are uniting to call for permanent, decent jobs.

This document provides a number of case studies of how US corporations abuse of contract labor and how women and migrants see the effects.