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Chris Tilly - Half a Job - 9781566393829 - V9781566393829
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Half a Job

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Description for Half a Job Paperback. An analysis of how US businesses use part-time employment, and why they are using it more and more. Examining the nature and purposes of the different types of part-time employment, this work explores the roots of part-time jobs in the organization of work, and the inadequacies of the public policies on part-time employment. Num Pages: 240 pages, 18 tables, 15 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBL; JPQB; KCFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 345.

Over 20 million people are working part-time in the United States, more than six million of them involuntarily. Both Time and Fortune magazines have run recent cover stories about this constrained faction of the workforce, who tend to earn on average 40 percent less than full-time workers. Addressing this disturbing trend, Chris Tilly presents a current, in-depth analysis of how U.S. businesses use part-time employment, and why they are using it more and more.

Worker demand for part-time jobs peaked more than twenty years ago, but employers' desires for cheap labor and schedule flexibility have continued to drive the ... Read more

Using not only statistical analysis but over eighty interviews with employers in the retail and insurance industries, Tilly suggests new approaches to providing flexibility without insecurity.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781566393829
SKU
V9781566393829
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Chris Tilly
Chris Tilly is Associate Professor in the Department of Policy and Planning at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.

Reviews for Half a Job
"Chris Tilly's study of part-time work differs from, and is superior to, most others because he puts the organizations that hire part-time workers at the center of his analysis. His ideas about part-time work are derived logically and rigorously. This is true, most especially, of the original and useful distinction he draws between retention and secondary part-time jobs that is ... Read more

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