2000 IRRA Research Volume

 

Nonstandard Work:

The Nature and Challenge of Changing Employment Arrangements


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INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………………………….           

Françoise Carré, Marianne A. Ferber, Lonnie Golden and Stephen A. Herzenberg

 

Section I: Trends and Patterns in Employment Arrangements

 

Chapter 1—Is “Standard Employment” Still What It Used to Be?

Annette Bernhardt and Dave E. Marcotte

 

Chapter 2—Definition, Composition, and Economic Consequences of the Nonstandard Workforce

Anne E. Polivka, Sharon R. Cohany, and Steven Hipple

 

Chapter 3—Limits to Market-Mediated Employment: From Deconstruction to Reconstruction of Internal Labor Markets

Philip Moss, Harold Salzman, and Chris Tilly

 

Section II: Explanations of Increases in Nonstandard Work Arrangements

 

Chapter 4—The Evolution of the Demand for Temporary Help Supply Employment in the United States

Marcello Estevão and Saul Lach

 

Chapter 5—Organization Size and Flexible Staffing Arrangements in the United States

Arne L. Kalleberg and Jeremy Reynolds

 

Section III: Consequences of Nonstandard Work

 

Chapter 6—Nonstandard and Contingent Employment: Contrasts by Job Type, Industry, and Occupation

Dale Belman and Lonnie Golden

 

Chapter 7—The Effects of Part-Time and Self-Employment on Wages and Benefits: Differences by Race/Ethnicity and Gender

Marianne A. Ferber and Jane Waldfogel

 

Chapter 8—The Bottom-Line Impact of Nonstandard Jobs on Companies’ Profitability and Productivity.

Shulamit Kahn

 

Section IV: Responses to Nonstandard Work Arrangements and to “Labor Market Churning”

 

Chapter 9—HR Strategy and Nonstandard Work: Dualism versus True Mobility

Charles Heckscher

 

Chapter 10—Historical Perspectives on Representing Nonstandard Workers

Dorothy Sue Cobble and Leah F. Vosko

 

Chapter 11—Looking for Leverage in a Fluid World: Innovative Responses to Temporary and Contracted Work

Françoise Carré and Pamela Joshi

 

Chapter 12—Building “Jobs with a Future” in Wisconsin: Lessons from Dane County

Laura Dresser

 

Chapter 13—Labor in the New Economy: Lessons from Labor Organizing in Silicon Valley

Chris Benner and Amy Dean

 

Chapter 14—CWA’s Organizing Strategies: Transforming Contract Work into Union Jobs

Virginia L. duRivage

 

Chapter 15—New Thinking on Worker Groups’ Role in a Flexible Economy

Sara Horowitz

 

Chapter 16—Nonstandard Employment and the Structure of Postindustrial Labor Markets

Stephen A. Herzenberg, John A. Alic, and Howard Wial

 


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