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The dynamics of control of migrant agency workers: Over-Recruitment, ‘The Bitchlist’ and the enterprising-self (2022)
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Tarrabain, C., & Thomas, R. (in press). The dynamics of control of migrant agency workers: Over-Recruitment, ‘The Bitchlist’ and the enterprising-self. Work, Employment and Society, 38(1), 27-43. https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170221100934

This article explores migrant workers’ experiences of organisational control while undertaking temporary agency work. This study is based on a ‘covert’ ethnographic study set at a temporary employment agency that short-term contracts workers to the c... Read More about The dynamics of control of migrant agency workers: Over-Recruitment, ‘The Bitchlist’ and the enterprising-self.