Precarious Work Requires Precarious Workers

From: Essential Work Disposable Workers

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This chapter specifically follows the rise of temporary placement agencies as a tool of employers to utilize undocumented, precarious and racialized migrants for capital. The shift from standardized employment relations to forms of non-standard employment and temp work has been empowered by the ability to exploit migrant labour to maintain a flexible and disposable

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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