@article{2018:becker:temporary_,
title = {Temporary Workforce Under Pressure. Poor Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) as a Dimension of Precarity?},
year = {2018},
note = {The article focuses on concrete occurrences of work-related
psychological stress and the strains of temporary workers. Because of
their higher sickness rates and incapacity to work, our research
question investigates the specific characteristics of temporary work
employees compared to all other employees. We carried out a secondary
cross-sectional data analysis of employee surveys from 2006 and 2012
to estimate the risks of poor working conditions and OSH deficiencies
for temporary and non-temporary workers. We identify different working
conditions and standards of occupational safety and health (OSH) in
relation to the employment status and interpret them as a symptom of
increasing labour precarity. Along with the decrease in collegiality,
management segregation of the workday thus exerts discipline on
workers in particular ways. Poor resources of gratification and
collegiality together with difficult work-time arrangements, e. g.
shift work, become characteristic features of the temporary workforce.
These are connected with psychological health restrictions which leads
more often to the phenomenon of attending work while ill (so called
presenteeism) than its opposite - sickness absenteeism.},
journal = {mrev management revue},
pages = {32--54},
author = {Becker, Karina and Engel, Thomas},
volume = {29},
number = {1}
}