How Subcontracting Affects Worker Safety
PBS “Frontline”
David Weil, School of Management
There’s been a change in the American labor market over the past few decades, as more workers — many of them young, inexperienced and willing to work for low wages — are now employed by a vast network of subcontractors that affects not just industries like tower climbers and construction, but also the health care, logistics, retail and service industries…
