Precarious Employment: Causes, Consequences and Remedies - Paperback

by Stephanie Procyk (Author), Wayne Lewchuk (Author), John Shields (Author)

This edited collection introduces and explores the causes and consequences of precarious employment in Canada and across the world. After contextualizing employment precarity and its root causes, the authors illustrate how precarious employment is created amongst different populations and describe the accompanying social impacts on racialized immigrant women, those in the non-profit sector, temporary foreign workers and the children of Filipino immigrants.

Author Biography

Stephanie Procyk is the manager of research, public policy and evaluation at United Way Toronto and York.