Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. INTRODUCTION. Controversy and Challenges Raised by Contingent Work Arrangements Kathleen Barker and Kathleen Christensen 1
5. Part I. The Workers: Numbers and Patterns
6. CHAPTER 1. Historical Perspective: The Peripheral Worker (1969) 21
7. CHAPTER 2. Counting the Workers: Results of a First Survey 41
8. CHAPTER 3. Gauging the Consequences for Gender Relations, Pay Equity, and the Public Purse 69
9. Part II. The Workplace: Tension and Trends
10. CHAPTER 4. Countervailing Human Resource Trends in Family-Sensitive Firms 103
11. CHAPTER 5. Benefits and Costs to Employers 126
12. CHAPTER 6. New Systems of Work and New Workers 144
13. CHAPTER 7. The Interaction between Market Incentives and Government Actions 170
14. Part III. The Human Face of Contingent Workers
15. CHAPTER 8. Toiling for Piece-Rates and Accumulating Deficits: Contingent Work in Higher Education 195
16. CHAPTER 9. Sisyphus at Work in the Warehouse: Temporary Employment in Greenville, South Carolina 221
17. CHAPTER 10. Job Safety and Contract Workers in the Petrochemical Industry 243
18. Part IV. Policy and Research: Future Directions
19. CHAPTER 11. Making Labor Law Work for Part-Time and Contingent Workers 263
20. CHAPTER 12. Contingent Workers and Employment Law 281
21. CHAPTER 13. Charting Future Research 306
22. References 321
23. Contributors 337
24. Index 343