Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-335) and index.
Contents:
Controversy and challenges raised by contingent work arrangements / Kathleen Barker and Kathleen Christensen -- Historical perspective: The peripheral worker (1969) / Dean Morse -- Counting the workers: results of a first survey / Sharon R. Cohany, Steven F. Hipple, Thomas J. Nardone, Anne E. Polivka, and Jay C. Stewart -- Gauging the consequences for gender relations, pay equity, and the public purse / Roberta Spalter-Roth and Heidi Hartmann -- Countervailing human resource trends in family sensitive firms / Kathleen Christensen -- Benefits and costs to employers / Stanley D. Nollen and Helen Axel -- New systems of work and new workers / Robert Drago -- The interaction between market incentives and government actions / George Gonos -- Toiling for piece-rates and accumulating deficits: contingent work in higher education / Kathleen Barker -- Sisyphus at work in the warehouse: temporary employment in Greenville, South Carolina / Jean McAllister -- Job safety and contract workers in the petrochemical industry / James B. Rebitzer -- Making labor law work for part-time and contingent workers / Virginia L. duRivage, Françoise J. Carré, and Charles Tilly -- Contingent workers and employment law / Anthony P. Carnevale, Lynn A. Jennings, and James M. Eisenmann -- Charting future research / Kathleen Barker and Kathleen Christensen.
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