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Report: Google's Full-Time Workers Outnumbered by 'Shadow Work Force' of Temps | Breitbart

The New York Times published an article recently that provides further insight into the divide between full-time Google employees and temporary workers, who now outnumber their full-time counterparts.

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Blogs We Like: Vice News

Everybody knows Vice. We realize that writing this is like a food blogger singing the gospel of In-N-Out Burger. But Vice News has rapidly become one of the best sources of original journalism on the internet, and they're worth acknowledging.

Among Vice News' most noteworthy recent contributions are ongoing documentary series on temporary labor in the US, ethnic cleansing in the Central African Republic, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Steel-gutted reporter Simon Ostrovsky has been especially amazing in the latter, weathering some pretty serious threats and capturing some of the most heated events in the conflict so far.

In general, it's Vice's avoidance of incessant macroscopy that makes their stuff so unique. Rather than operating at a distance with only statistics, second-hand reporting, and speculation, Vice's seemingly fearless crews have spent serious time in serious shit, filling their work more with the voices of those involved than those spectating.

Follow the Vice News tumblr for updates, and check out their main site and YouTube channel too.

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Permanently Temporary: The Truth About Temp Labor

Temp labor is one of the fastest growing industries in the US. Increasingly, temp workers are part of a business strategy to keep costs down and profits high. From mega-retailers to mom-and-pop shops, temps are hired to do some of the hardest and most dangerous jobs.

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Another Thought

Being an 'employee' in a workplace with a large percentage of contract workers has also made me feel very... conscious of the legal distinctions and differences in worker protections afforded between the two classifications.  When I was settling into my cubicle at work, I had to clear out the belongings of the previous occupant, who was a temp/contract worker. She left a notepad with prayers and notes to herself. One of them expressed anxiety about her husband losing his job, and the mounting late fees on their rent/electricity/gas/phone bills, and how she wanted to provide enough to allow their kids to participate in extracurriculars. As a reader, I felt... like a voyeur. I felt even worse when I read her written prayers, expressing gratitude for the temp assignment, but asking for stability and the means to cover her household's living expenses. The contractualization/casualization of labor in this current economy is profoundly destabilizing in ways that I cannot adequately express.  I refuse to take comfort in 'knowing' that I am one of the "lucky" ones, because the status of workers is increasingly precarious as employers treat employees as costs to be cut, treating temp/contract labor as a cost-cutting alternative.

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Also

I can see how the contractualization of labor could disincentivize labor organizing in workplaces- if you have a mixture of employees, contract workers and temporary workers, it's hard to come to a consensus on priorities (fair pay, hours, benefits, etc), let alone meet each other where we are. (This explains, to a shallow extent, why tenured academics seldom organize with adjuncts within academia.)

Conversations about wages were hush-hush among employees- now add in temporary and contract workers, and conversations about wages would mean addressing wage depression and wage disparities between staffing agencies.

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The Great Recession changed the American workplace. More and more jobs that used to be full time are now part time, with lower pay and limited or no benefits. The number of "involuntary" part-time workers—people who want a full-time job but can't find one or have had their hours cut back by their current employer—has nearly doubled since 2007. There were 8.1 million involuntary part-time workers in October, versus 4.3 million in October 2007, according to the latest figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

How 'on-call' hours are hurting part-time workers