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Unstable Work in a Fissured Economy: Tracking Employment in Subcontractor Establishments in France

American Sociological Review

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Abstract

American Sociological Review, Ahead of Print.
Many jobs in the twenty-first century have become short-term, precarious, and unstable. To help explain this phenomenon, I consider the fragmentation of economic activity across networks of transacting organizations—a trend known to affect pay, but with ...