"This article deals with the spreading of temporary jobs in European countries, and particularly in the Italian socio-economic context. Almost everywhere nonpermanent forms of employment have been introduced though a progressive slackening of obligations concerning the use of workforce and with a “de facto dismantlement” of the social protection systems. The article deals with the consequences of this process, and, above all, it tries to reinforce the hypothesis that temporary jobs with limited protection must be observed as an important instrument to redefine the power relations between workforce buyers (employers) and sellers; they produce new forms of control and dominance and are emerging as a disciplinary mechanism in the Foucaultian sense."

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