Tarrabain, Chloe and Thomas, Robyn  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8679
2024.
The dynamics of control of migrant agency workers: over-recruitment, "the bitchlist" and the enterprising-self.
Work, Employment and Society
38
(1)
, pp. 27-43.
10.1177/09500170221100934
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Abstract
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 catering and hospitality industry. The findings show how control is perceived by workers to emerge from the over-recruitment, coupled with the allocation of work through an informal ranking system. Migrant workers’ specific socio-economic circumstances and their race and gender identities informed their responses to these systems, resulting in the buy-in to discourses of enterprise. The result was actors who are complicit, if not active, participants in self and peer regulation. As such, this article contributes to the literature on enterprising-selves, control of temporary agency workers and the wider manufacturing consent literature.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > Business (Including Economics) |
| Publisher: | SAGE |
| ISSN: | 0950-0170 |
| Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 1 May 2022 |
| Date of Acceptance: | 5 April 2022 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Mar 2024 14:45 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/149468 |
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