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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barker, Kathleen, Editor.

Christensen, K. (Kathleen), Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Contract system (Labor)--United States.

Contract system (Labor).

Employee fringe benefits--Law and legislation--United States.

Employee fringe benefits.

Labor laws and legislation--United States.

Labor laws and legislation.

Part-time employment--United States.

Part-time employment.

Piecework--United States.

Piecework.

Seasonal labor--United States.

Seasonal labor.

Temporary employment--United States.

Temporary employment.

Legal History & Studies.

Local Subjects:

Legal History & Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.) : 34 tables, 8 charts/graphs

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION. Controversy and Challenges Raised by Contingent Work Arrangements Kathleen Barker and Kathleen Christensen / Christensen, Kathleen / Barker, Kathleen

Part I. The Workers: Numbers and Patterns

CHAPTER 1. Historical Perspective: The Peripheral Worker (1969) / Morse, Dean

CHAPTER 2. Counting the Workers: Results of a First Survey / Stewart, Jay C. / Polivka, Anne E. / Nardone, Thomas J. / Hipple, Steven R. / Cohany, Sharon R.

CHAPTER 3. Gauging the Consequences for Gender Relations, Pay Equity, and the Public Purse / Hartmann, Heidi / Spalter-Roth, Roberta

Part II. The Workplace: Tension and Trends

CHAPTER 4. Countervailing Human Resource Trends in Family-Sensitive Firms / Christensen, Kathleen

CHAPTER 5. Benefits and Costs to Employers / Axel, Helen / Nollen, Stanley D.

CHAPTER 6. New Systems of Work and New Workers / Drago, Robert

CHAPTER 7. The Interaction between Market Incentives and Government Actions / Gonos, George

Part III. The Human Face of Contingent Workers

CHAPTER 8. Toiling for Piece-Rates and Accumulating Deficits: Contingent Work in Higher Education / Barker, Kathleen

CHAPTER 9. Sisyphus at Work in the Warehouse: Temporary Employment in Greenville, South Carolina / McAllister, Jean

CHAPTER 10. Job Safety and Contract Workers in the Petrochemical Industry / Rebitzer, James B.

Part IV. Policy and Research: Future Directions

CHAPTER 11. Making Labor Law Work for Part-Time and Contingent Workers / duRivage, Virginia L. / Carre, Françoise J. / Tilly, Chris

CHAPTER 12. Contingent Workers and Employment Law / Carnevale, Anthony P. / Jennings, Lynn A. / Eisenmann, James M.

CHAPTER 13. Charting Future Research / Barker, Kathleen / Christensen, Kathleen

References

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781501720864

1501720864

OCLC:

1129186493