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Temporary employment--United States, Women--Employment--United States.
publication date
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1996
lcc
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HD5854.2.U6H46 1996eb
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331.25/72
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Temporary employment--United States, Women--Employment--United States.
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Just a Temp
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In the series Women in the Political Economy, edited by Ronnie J. Steinberg
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Just a Temp
Kevin D. Henson
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Temple University Press, Philadelphia 19122 Copyright 1996 by Temple University. All rights reserved Published 1996 Printed in the United States of America
The paper used in this book meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984 Text design by William Boehm
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Henson, Kevin Daniel, 1963 Just a temp / Kevin Daniel Henson. p. cm. (Women in the political economy) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-56639-385-X (cloth: alk. paper). ISBN 1-56639-386-8 (paper: alk. paper) 1. Temporary employmentUnited States. 2. WomenEmploymentUnited States. I. Title. II. Series. HD5854.2.U6H46 1996 331.25'72dc20 95-16814
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For my mother, Lillian Henson, and my father, Billy Charles Henson
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Contents
Preface
ix
1 Introduction
1
2 Getting into It
26
3 Getting Work
48
4 Doing the Work
85
5 Playing the Part
113
6 Just a Temp
144
Notes
173
References
187
Index
197
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Preface
So this is where the brain starts to shut down and that which we treasure most, our personal identities, begins to slip away. Here. In front of the VDT (very disturbing tormentor or video display terminalI don't remember which), where our eyes begin to fail us and our backs become permanently hunched. I suppose I should be thankful; it's a paycheck. But this open room without windows, up on 10, behind accounting, with the Authorized Personnel Only sign on the door, is deadening to the senses. And to the spirit. A banner at the front of the room reads, "Work Smarter, Not Harder." And the only decoration, a watercolor of Sacr-Coeur on the wall (a cheap framed copy of a supermarket original), serves to emphasize the bleakness.
How did I get here? I remember going from one temp agency to another in the bright afternoon sunlight (was it only yesterday?), filling out form after form and typing banal stories about getting along with others in the workplace while being timed by an invisible timer in the other room. Before I knew it, I was talking up my data entry experience (one of the more boring tasks, if they can be rated in any kind of meaningful order, from my time as an insurance clerk) and accepting an assignment in the credit department of a large national department store. "You have to be able to take this assignment for four weeks. If you
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can't commit to it, just say so now and we'll find you something else," my temporary counselor told me. I committed myself for $6.50 an hour. I sold myself into VDT slavery.
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Thus I began my not-so-illustrious career as a temporary employee. It was the summer of 1988, the first summer of my graduate school career. I had looked in vain for an academically oriented summer job: a summer teaching post, a research position, even a job at the campus library. Finally, believing that I could "always do temp work," I began making the rounds of various Chicago Loopbased temporary agencies. There were plenty to choose from.
Indeed, Chicago was an early leader in the temporary industry. Four of the eight nationally operating temporary agencies in the early 1960sComptometer Corporation, Labor Pool, Statistical Tabulating Corporation, and Workman Diversifiedwere based in Chicago (Moore 1963). Between 1986 and 1987 temporary employment was the leading growth industry in the city, increasing an astounding 38 percent in one year (Economic Development Commission of the City of Chicago 1990, 15). In 1987 Chicago employed the third largest temporary labor force (18,045), behind only New York and Los Angeles (U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1988, 27). In 1988, as I leafed through the Chicago Area Yellow Pages, I found more than 150 separate temporary agencies.
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