Those few miners that were lucky to find other jobs were joining temporaryemploymentagencies with no guarantee of regular income or the local textile factories where wages were far lower than they had earned in the mining industry.
In 2009, Yaling Yang, Robert Schug and I conducted structural brain scans on 27 psychopaths whom we had found in temporary-employment agencies in Los Angeles.
There are signs of weakness about employment with temporary help agencies is flat, and evidence is mounting of higher layoffs but overall, the labour market remains extremely tight.