dependent work

But their paternalism, by turns benevolent and brutal, was based on a larger purpose: creating a dependent work force.

With dependent work, the worker appears to work on his own but, in reality, he is dependent on a firm or group of firms for some vital part of his work, such as premises, equipment, supplies, or outlet.

Float (i.e. the lapse of time between the end of a work element and the following dependent work element) or a programmed period of unproductive time within a work element has to be recognized in both the tender and subsequent programmes.

It can be divided into four broad and occasionally overlapping ideal-type categories which, in order of decreasing similarity from stable wage work, are short-term wage work, disguised wage work, dependent work, and true self-employment at the polar extreme of the continuum.