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Contingent Work: American Employment Relations in Transition

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Description for Contingent Work: American Employment Relations in Transition Paperback. Editor(s): Barker, Kathleen; Christensen, Kathleen. Num Pages: 368 pages, 42. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBL; KCF; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 500. An excellent, clean copy

The successful 1997 strike by the Teamsters against UPS, and the overwhelming support the American public gave the strikers highlighted the impact of contingent work—an umbrella term for a variety of tenuous and insecure employment arrangements such as temping, independent contracting, employee leasing, and some self-employment and part-time or part-year work. This new book contends that contingent work represents a profound deviation from the employment relations model that dominated most of this century's labor relations. It delineates essential features of contingent work from both the worker's and the organization's point of view.

Articulating a variety of perspectives from various ... Read more

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Product Details

Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Cornell University Press Ithaca
Number of pages
344
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780801484056
SKU
KRS0017538
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Unknown
Kathleen Barker is a Professor of Psychology at Medgar Evers College/City University of New York. Kathleen Christensen is a Program Officer at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Reviews for Contingent Work: American Employment Relations in Transition
Interesting and diverse.
Judith Stein
The Journal of American History
A quick and accessible read for policymakers and students alike. Its challenge to contemporary liberal thinking about poor women's work makes it a provokative text for courses in public welfare policy, women's labor history, and recent feminism, as well as a needed reminder to activists for social ... Read more

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