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Contingent Work: American Employment Relations in Transition

Paperback • 1998

Contingent Work: American Employment Relations in Transition

By Kathleen Barker, Kathleen Christensen

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<p>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...Show more

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9780801484056

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1998

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Contingent Work: American Employment Relations in Transition

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