Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.