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Just-in-Time Workers for Just-in-Time Distribution
From: Essential Work Disposable Workers
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This chapter focuses on how the rise of just-in-time distribution, a sector of growing importance to global capitalism, has been fuelled with the rise of just-in-time employment — meaning a corporation’s ability to integrate labour into a flexible labour regime. This involves an erosion of employer responsibility or long-term commitment to a workforce in order to cut costs and remain competitive, as hiring, firing, training and the costs of high turnover can be avoided through using temp workers, gig workers and day-labour. The chapter illustrates how the logistics industry utilizes a low-wage, migrant and racialized workforce as a hidden subsidy to lower the costs of labour while raising productivity levels
Contributors
Mostafa Henaway
Mostafa Henaway, a Canadian-born Egyptian, is a long-time community organizer at the Immigrant Workers Centre in Montreal, where he has been organizing for justice for immigrant/migrant workers for over two decades. He is also a researcher and PhD candidate at Concordia University
