Contingent Work : : American Employment Relations in Transition / / ed. by Kathleen Barker, Kathleen Christensen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Axel, Helen,; Barker, Kathleen,; Carnevale, Anthony P.,; Carre, Françoise J.,; Christensen, Kathleen,; Cohany, Sharon R.,; Drago, Robert,; Eisenmann, James M.,; Gonos, George,; Hartmann, Heidi,; Hipple, Steven R.,; Jennings, Lynn A.,; McAllister, Jean,; Morse, Dean,; Nardone, Thomas J.,; Nollen, Stanley D.,; Polivka, Anne E.,; Rebitzer, James B.,; Spalter-Roth, Roberta,; Stewart, Jay C.,; Tilly, Chris,; duRivage, Virginia L.,
• HerausgeberIn: Barker, Kathleen,; Christensen, Kathleen,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 34 tables, 8 charts/graphs

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 disciplines, the contributors examine the business forces driving contingent work and assess the consequences of working contingently for the individual, family, and community, taking into account issues of race, class, and gender. They ask how current labor and employment laws need to be rewritten to provide contingent workers with the same comprehensive protections offered to permanent employees. In the final chapter, the editors comment on the status of research on contingent work and chart future research directions.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. Controversy and Challenges Raised by Contingent Work Arrangements Kathleen Barker and Kathleen Christensen -- Part I. The Workers: Numbers and Patterns -- CHAPTER 1. Historical Perspective: The Peripheral Worker (1969) -- CHAPTER 2. Counting the Workers: Results of a First Survey -- CHAPTER 3. Gauging the Consequences for Gender Relations, Pay Equity, and the Public Purse -- Part II. The Workplace: Tension and Trends -- CHAPTER 4. Countervailing Human Resource Trends in Family-Sensitive Firms -- CHAPTER 5. Benefits and Costs to Employers -- CHAPTER 6. New Systems of Work and New Workers -- CHAPTER 7. The Interaction between Market Incentives and Government Actions -- Part III. The Human Face of Contingent Workers -- CHAPTER 8. Toiling for Piece-Rates and Accumulating Deficits: Contingent Work in Higher Education -- CHAPTER 9. Sisyphus at Work in the Warehouse: Temporary Employment in Greenville, South Carolina -- CHAPTER 10. Job Safety and Contract Workers in the Petrochemical Industry -- Part IV. Policy and Research: Future Directions -- CHAPTER 11. Making Labor Law Work for Part-Time and Contingent Workers -- CHAPTER 12. Contingent Workers and Employment Law -- CHAPTER 13. Charting Future Research -- References -- Contributors -- Index