Temporary Employment Agencies

Temporary Employment Agencies


 * Adecco
 * Allegis Group
 * Corporate Resource Services
 * Kelly Services
 * Hays
 * Advantage Resourcing
 * Gi Group
 * Manpower
 * Randstad Group
 * Staffline
 * Staffing Partners
 * Blue Arrow
 * HOPS
 * Total Labour Solutions
 * Pro-Force
 * Teamwork Resource
 * Cordant
 * Best Connection
 * Encore
 * The Staffing Group
 * Quattro Recruitment Ltd)
 * Impellam Group plc
 * Unitemps

Critical Books

 * Parker, R. E., Flesh peddlers and warm bodies: The temporary help industry and its workers (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994).
 * Chris Tilly, Half a Job: Bad and Good Part-Time Jobs in a Changing Labor Market (Temple University Press, 1996).
 * Leah F. Vosko, Temporary Work: The Gendered Rise of a Precarious Employment Relationship (University of Toronto Press, 2000).
 * Smith, V., Crossing the great divide: Worker risk and opportunity in the new economy (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001).
 * Barley, S. R., & Kunda, G., Gurus, hired guns, and warm bodies: Itinerant experts in a knowledge economy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004).

Critical Articles

 * Lewis Segal & Daniel Sullivan, “The growth of temporary services work,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 11 (2), 1997.
 * Heery, E. and Salmon, J. (1999). ‘The insecurity thesis’. In E. Heery and J. Salmon (eds.) The Insecure Workforce. London: Routledge.
 * Steven Hipple, “Contingent work in the late 1990s,” Monthly Labor Review, 124 (3), 2001.
 * Heery, E. (2004). ‘The trade union response to agency labour in Britain’, Industrial Relations Journal, 35(5): 434-450.
 * Stanworth, C. and Druker, J. (2004), ‘Temporary agency labour in the UK’, in Burgess, J. and Connell, J. (eds) International Perspectives on Temporary Agency Work (London, Routledge) p.54.
 * Forde, C. and Slater, G. (2005), "Agency Working in Britain: Character, Consequences and Regulation", British Journal of Industrial Relations, 43:2, pp.249-272.

Related Sourcewatch

 * Association of Labour Providers